Pyzor integration

Steve Weigold steve at weigoldenterprises.com
Wed Dec 9 15:03:10 UTC 2015


Thanks Jerry.  I fixed weird permissions on the folder and things seem 
to be behaving now.

Steve


On 12/8/2015 9:22 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> Check which user and group you are running under. Also check the 
> permissions. I personally like to create a group called mtagroup and 
> add postfix, clamav, and whatever other users to it. I then use that 
> group in MailScanner with group write permissions. Eliminates the 
> permission issues.
>
> -
> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com <http://www.mailborder.com>
>
>
>
>> On Dec 8, 2015, at 9:02 PM, Steve Weigold 
>> <steve at weigoldenterprises.com <mailto:steve at weigoldenterprises.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Some follow on information.... I expected all of the details to be in 
>> mail.log and didn't think to check syslog. :-(  More details there:
>>
>> Dec  8 11:40:35 gw1 mailscanner[4195]: Dec  8 11:40:35.083 [4334] 
>> dbg: pyzor: got response: Traceback (most recent call last):\n File 
>> "/usr/bin/pyzor", line 8, in <module>\n pyzor.client.run()\n File 
>> "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pyzor/client.py", line 1022, in run\n 
>> ExecCall().run()\n File 
>> "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pyzor/client.py", line 180, in run\n 
>> os.mkdir(homedir)\nOSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
>> '/var/spool/postfix/.pyzor'
>> Dec  8 11:40:35 gw1 mailscanner[4195]: pyzor: check failed: internal 
>> error, python traceback seen in response
>>
>> Obviously I have a permissions issue.  Now I need to understand why 
>> it's trying to use /var/spool/postfix for .pyzor instead of 
>> /var/spool/MailScanner.
>>
>> I also clicked around more and found the archive search mechanism.
>>
>> Words of wisdom appreciated.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 12/8/2015 8:44 PM, Steve Weigold wrote:
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> Apologies if this has been asked before, but while I found the list 
>>> archive, I couldn't find a means to search it and considering it 
>>> goes back many years, scanning by hand seemed a bit overwhelming. If 
>>> there's a search capability for it that I've missed, please let me 
>>> know.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I have a new server I've setup to be a spam filter gateway. 
>>> It's a clean install of Debian Jessie with MailScanner and Postfix 
>>> with what I believe to be the latest versions.  Generally, the 
>>> system is working, but I'm still getting much more spam than I 
>>> should be. Reviewing the logs, I can see that I'm getting relatively 
>>> low spam scores even on what I'd consider obvious spam emails.
>>>
>>> This lead me down the path of what else could be done with 
>>> spamassassin, which got me to Pyzor, Razor and DCC.  At the moment, 
>>> DCC isn't installed.   I guess it was removed from the repository 
>>> because it's non-free? Pyzor and Razor are installed, and somehow, I 
>>> think I have Razor working, at least based on the fact that I see 
>>> log entries like this one:
>>>
>>> Dec  8 20:33:02 gw1 MailScanner[16071]: Message 0005D140024.A1747 
>>> from 198.173.85.230 
>>> (amazon-promotional-credit at urfhe.selectweddingbands.com) to 
>>> acnoc.net <http://acnoc.net> is not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, 
>>> score=5.497, required 6, RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 0.36, 
>>> RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 2.43, RAZOR2_CHECK 1.73, SPF_SOFTFAIL 
>>> 0.97, URIBL_BLOCKED 0.00)
>>>
>>> I'm not sure Pyzor is working though, and when I run MailScanner 
>>> --lint, I get this:
>>>
>>> pyzor: check failed: internal error, python traceback seen in response
>>>
>>> I've googled ad nauseum and I'm getting nowhere.
>>>
>>> In spam.assassin.prefs.conf, I have:
>>> pyzor_options --homedir /var/spool/MailScanner/
>>>
>>> and permissions on that folder seem OK
>>> drwxr-xr-x  6 postfix     postfix     4096 Dec  8 19:52 MailScanner
>>>
>>> Inside it, Pyzor's servers file:
>>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 postfix postfix   23 Dec  8 19:52 servers
>>>
>>> Help?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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