Hi

why use spamc AND Mailscanner?? Mailscanner can call SA from within itself and alter headers as required so procmail can then process as needed..



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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Sao31113 wrote:
Hi:

I - My Environment:

Linux Server - Fedora Core 2
Apache - 2.0.50
Sendmail - 8.12.11
MailScanner - 4.31.6-1
SpamAssassin - 2.63

II - My /etc/procmailrc:

DROPPRIVS=yes
#Uncomment the following lines to allow for logging
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
VERBOSE=ON
:0fw
* < 256000
        | spamc

        :0e
        {
          EXITCODE=$?
        }

        :0:
        * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
        /var/spool/mail/lixo

Note: All flagged Spam emails are written to this /var/spool/mail/lixo folder.

III - My /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:

# SpamAssassin config file for version 2.5x
# generated by http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php (version 1.01)
# How many hits before a message is considered spam.
required_hits           6.0
# Whether to change the subject of suspected spam
rewrite_subject         0
# Text to prepend to subject if rewrite_subject is used
subject_tag             *****SPAM*****
# Encapsulate spam in an attachment
report_safe             1
# Use terse version of the spam report
use_terse_report        0
# Enable the Bayes system
use_bayes               1
# Enable Bayes auto-learning
auto_learn              0
# Enable or disable network checks
skip_rbl_checks         1
use_razor2              1
use_dcc                 1
use_pyzor               1
# Mail using languages used in these country codes will not be marked
# as being possibly spam in a foreign language.
ok_languages            all
# Mail using locales used in these country codes will not be marked
# as being possibly spam in a foreign language.
ok_locales              all

IV - My Problem

I had all this stuff working without any problem. Until Yesterday. So, whenever SpamAssassin flagged one email as Spam, it just wrote it to a folder called "/var/spool/mail/lixo", as you can see configured above at "procmailrc file", and put there all that pontuation / rules, etc

All of a sudden, it stopped doing so, that is:

a) SpamAssassin, although it seems it keeps on scanning emails, it stopped writing them to "/var/spool/mail/lixo" directory.

b) In the other hand we realized that SpamAssassin started, at the same time, to write them to a directory called "spam", at a path "/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/2004/0823/spam". And it writes them there with no pontuation / rules , etc.

c) The third remark is that we also realized that SpamAssassin stopped writing Spam emails to the "/var/spool/mail/lixo" and instead writes them to "/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/2004/0823/spam", but only when we start MailScanner.

V - My Questions:

1) Why did SpamAssassin, which was working fine, all of a sudden, start writing to "/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/2004/0823/spam" instead of to "/var/spool/mail/lixo" ?

2) Why does MailScanner affect it and how to solve this, that is, how to have SpamAssassin and Mailscanner as well, working normally together again?

I thank a lot to anyone who could help us with this.

Mario./


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