<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">what version of spamassassin are you using - 1.5 seems to be supported (1.3 didnt connect with mailscanner)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">did you compile spammassion from source, or did you use one of the rpms?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I would suggest compile from source - as the rpm's ar 686 and 586 - and not 486.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">do you get any errors on startup of mailscanner - I had to upgrade to 1.5 to get rid of library problems.</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>Gerry Doris <gerry@DORFAM.CA></b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Well, I've been having all kinds of problems trying to get spam detection<br>
working in MailScanner. I eventually messed up everything so badly that I<br>
went back to the 2.6 version and started again.<br>
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On my system I have been totally unable to get any kind of internal spam<br>
screening running with either the 2.6 or the 3.0 versions. Watching top I<br>
can see that sendmail and mailscanner run but spamassassin is never<br>
executed by mailscanner. Even without using spamassassin mailscanner<br>
doesn't tag any emails no matter what they contain. However, when I<br>
enable spamassassin using procmail it runs perfectly.<br>
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I have bounced mail off external mail servers for testing. It doesn't<br>
matter what I send to myself it is never flagged by mailscanner's internal<br>
spam detection. I have commented out the MAPS-RBL+ site and only have<br>
ORDB enabled.<br>
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I am using an old but functional 486 system to play with this. Could it<br>
be that the mailscanner spam code isn't compatible with a 486 cpu?<br>
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By the way, this isn't a big deal as I only have a home network with four<br>
systems and three users including me! I just want to see if I can get it<br>
to work!!!<br>
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Gerry<br>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:<br>
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> At 21:07 04/01/2002, you wrote:<br>
> >I have never seen any indication that spam checking is operational with my<br>
> >install of mailscanner. That includes the 2.6 version as well as the new<br>
> >3.01 version. The virus checking certainly works as it picked up a virus<br>
> >just last night.<br>
> ><br>
> >I installed spamassassin yesterday and it also doesn't seem to be called<br>
> >by mailscanner...at least there is no header being added regarding spam<br>
> >hits. On the other hand when I activate spamassassin in my procmailrc<br>
> >file it does add the spam headers.<br>
> ><br>
> >I have edited the mailscanner.conf file turning on all spam options. I'm<br>
> >now at a loss of where to go from here??<br>
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> You should just get the X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: header, none of the other<br>
> SpamAssassin headers will appear. Try sending the SpamAssassin sample spam<br>
> message through it, that should show you.<br>
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> What RBL's are you using? the MAPS-RBL+ is only available to JANET sites<br>
> unless you pay MAPS yourself, and the only other one I have left in is ORDB<br>
> (I think). Find an open relay in ORDB and send yourself some mail via it.<br>
> If you can't find an open relay, drop me a line and I'll dig one out for<br>
> you to try.<br>
> --<br>
> Julian Field Teaching Systems Manager<br>
> jkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science<br>
> Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton<br>
> Southampton SO17 1BJ<br>
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