Nope, haven't restarted anything recently, I have since changing rules though
qmail just runs spamc as a command line to the email message and gets its response afaik -----Original Message----- From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 2/13/2007 12:29 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SpamAssassin using spamc but not using rules correctly? Is my time being wasted changing local.cf etc? On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:42:22AM +1300, Philip Seccombe wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I've taken over a mail server from a previous technician and he's > modified qmail to call spamassassin and the problem is I make changes to > local.cf but I don't think they get used. > > > > Reasoning is that mail.info shoes it saying that required score is 5.0 > but I've changed this to 4.5 > > spamassassin --lint -D will say that 4.5 is required: > > > > [21280] dbg: rules: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=1.046 > > [21280] dbg: check: is spam? score=1.046 required=4.5 > > [21280] dbg: check: > tests=BAYES_05,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS,TO_CC_NONE > > [21280] dbg: check: > subtests=__HAS_MSGID,__MSGID_OK_DIGITS,__MSGID_OK_HOST,__NONEMPTY_BODY,_ > _SANE_MSGID,__UNUSABLE_MSGID > > > > /var/log/mail.info shows the following: > > > > Feb 13 11:26:53 nibbler spamd[14048]: spamd: connection from localhost > [127.0.0.1] at port 44594 Umm, did you restart spamd? > > <remainder snipped> > > > Does anyone have any idea what on earth is going on here? > > I'm not a huge linux guru so I'm a little confused, qmail appears to > download the message, check if it is a virus, then call spamc and check > if it is spam, if it is then it puts it on a pop mailbox on the server > else it forwards the message onto the customers mail server > > > > Appologies on the huge email, I wanted to give as much detail as I could > > > > Kind Regards, > > Philip Seccombe > > Turnstone Technologies NZ Limited > > > > Phone: +64 9 970 5550 > > Fax: +64 9 970 5559 > > DDI: +64 9 970 5552 > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web: www.turnstone.co.nz Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV)