spamd not marking messages at all...

[Tom Emerson <os...@pacbell.net>]

I've got an odd one that I'm not entirely sure where to start, but here's the 
scoop:  I'm running SA for both myself and my parents using fetchmail to pull 
messages from our respective ISP's, pass them to postfix which uses 
essentially the suggestions from the DOC page to process via the 
"postfixfilter" script, then makes them available for pickup using plain old 
pop3.  Recently it became apparent that SA wasn't doing anything, so I bit 
the bullet and upgraded to 3.0.2 [from 2.6.3]

it still seems to not really do anything, so I ran a few tests and I don't see 
ANY SA headers appearing at all when using spamd, but they do appear if 
passed to spamassassin proper.  Further investigation reveals other oddities.

From my /var/log/mail file, I see these errors:

spamd[32547]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string 
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm line 184.
spamd[32547]: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) 
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 875.

If I run in "debug" mode [-D], spamd hangs at the end of processing a message 
passed from spamc, but not when in daemon mode [-d]  (all other switches are 
set the same: -a -L -i 0.0.0.0 -A 192.168.40.0/24,127.0.0.1/24 -Q -x)

[and yes, as part of the upgrade from 2.6 to 3.0, I've set up a mysql database 
and migrated the user_prefs, auto-whitelist & bayes DB files -- so far as I 
can tell, this worked OK]

Although this is running on a SuSE system, SA was installed [and upgraded] via 
perl -MCPAN [and passed all tests except razor as I'm not using it yet]

I'm getting the impression that spamd is aborting (silently) which causes 
spamc to return an un-altered message.  Oddly enough, when in "daemon" mode, 
spamc with a -R flag DOES return a proper "report" that corresponds to the 
results I get when passing the same message to spamassassin directly.

osnut:~ # cat test.letter | spamc -R
0.3/5.0
Spam detection software, running on [...]
Content analysis details:   (0.3 points, 5.0 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 0.1 NO_REAL_NAME           From: does not include a real name
 0.2 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list

osnut:~ # cat test.letter | spamassassin
razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Insecure dependency in connect 
while running with -T switch 
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm line 114.
From OSNUT@pacbell.net  Sun Jan 30 22:03:23 2005
[...]
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,
        DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=3.0.2
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on osnut.homelinux.net

[remember, spamd is running with -L, so it wouldn't have done the DNS tests -- 
just to be sure, I restarted spamd without the -L and sure enough, it 
matches:
osnut:~ # cat test.letter | spamc -R
1.2/5.0
Spam detection [...]
 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 0.2 NO_REAL_NAME           From: does not include a real name
 1.4 DNS_FROM_RFC_POST      RBL: Envelope sender in 
postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org
 0.4 DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE     RBL: Envelope sender in abuse.rfc-ignorant.org
-0.7 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
]

odd, though, that with -L it gets different values for AWL and no-real-name...