Hi Giovanni,
Thank you, it is fixed now. A big part of the problem is it's been a
while since I've built a new mailserver, and the last time I did was on
FreeBSD, Ubuntu changes around a lot of stuff and I was wanting to use
the packaged binaries of things.
I had assumed that the newer spamd had integrated milter support since
the last time I had used it and some instructions I ran across seemed to
support this. Those were wrong. I used my older notes and got it all
straightened out. I'll post a quick instruction step to the mailing
list here because what's currently available right now on blogs and such
is completely wrong.
Ted
On 4/15/2026 2:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On 4/15/26 9:33 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
I'm getting the following error:
2026-04-15T00:13:46.607535-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8049]:
63F7ABQQ008049: [61.179.73.179] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN
during connection to MTA-v4
2026-04-15T00:13:48.678813-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]:
63F7ACVg008050: milter_sys_read(spamassassin): cmd read returned 71,
expecting 1397768524
2026-04-15T00:13:48.679060-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]:
63F7ACVg008050: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
2026-04-15T00:13:48.679149-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]:
63F7ACVg008050: Milter (spamassassin): init failed to open
2026-04-15T00:13:48.679251-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]:
63F7ACVg008050: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
2026-04-15T00:13:48.684820-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]:
63F7AWUo008054: milter_sys_read(spamassassin): cmd read returned 71,
expecting 1397768524
2026-04-15T00:13:48.685048-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]:
63F7AWUo008054: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
2026-04-15T00:13:48.685131-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]:
63F7AWUo008054: Milter (spamassassin): init failed to open
2026-04-15T00:13:48.685210-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]:
63F7AWUo008054: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
[...]
root@clientmail:/var/log# cat /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin.m4
dnl
dnl Process mail through spamassassin
dnl
define(`confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM', `i, {auth_type}, {auth_authen},
{auth_ssf}, {auth_author}, {mail_mailer}, {mail_host}, {mail_addr},
r, b, v, Z')dnl
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=,
T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
root@clientmail:/var/log#
Are you using a milter to integrate Sendmail and SpamAssassin ? Which
software has created `/var/run/spamass.sock` ?
SpamAssassin doesn't understand Milter protocol, you need a glue
software to integrate Sendmail and SpamAssassin, some info are
available at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/IntegratedInMta
Cheers
Giovanni
