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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> on 2007/02/26 10:54:10 UTC
sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Hello,
I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin
3.0.3-2sarge1".
As you can imagine, having not done an update of the rules for a very
long time, it's pretty useless these days, so i was wondering how
"sa-update" worked.
BUT... the "sa-update" command doesn't seem to exist on my system... any
ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Richard.
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by John Fleming <jo...@wa9als.com>.
I agree it doesn't sound like a SA problem. I can't help either, as I use
Postfix. Surely the Exim-SA people will be getting up soon...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hobbs" <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
To: "Adam Wilbraham" <ad...@technophobia.com>
Cc: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the link, but it's not for spamassassin... it does look
> very similar to the config i have in exim for spamassassin though.
>
> Does anyone know if i do need to adjust the config in exim when
> upgrading spamassassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" as per
> the backports repository?
>
> My current exim config is as follows:
>
> Router:
> ============================================================
> sa_router:
> no_verify
> check_local_user
> # When to scan a message :
> # - it isn't already flagged as spam from Spamassassin
> # - it isn't already scanned
> # - it isn't local
> # - it isn't from one internal domain user to another
> condition = "${if and { \
> {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} \
> {!eq {$received_protocol}{local}} \
> {!eq {$sender_address_domain}{$domain}} \
> } \
> {1}{0}}"
> driver = accept
> transport = sa_spamcheck
> local_parts = /etc/spamassassinUsers
> ============================================================
>
> Transport:
> ============================================================
> sa_spamcheck:
> driver = pipe
> command = /usr/sbin/exim4 -oMr spam-scanned -bS
> use_bsmtp = true
> transport_filter = /usr/bin/spamc
> home_directory = "/tmp"
> current_directory = "/tmp"
> user = spamcheck
> group = spamcheck
> log_output = true
> return_fail_output = true
> return_path_add = false
> message_prefix =
> message_suffix =
> ============================================================
>
> As mentioned before, only *some* of the emails are failing. around 50%
> were getting through fine.
>
> Thanks again,
> Richard.
>
>
> Adam Wilbraham wrote:
>> Looks like an exim problem to me, how is exim calling spamc?
>> Unfortunately I have no exim experience whatsoever (I use qmail /
>> qmailscanner) but maybe you need to revisit your exim config after the
>> upgrade... This link may be of use but I'm not sure...
>>
>> http://sys-admin.org/en/node/21
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:30:19 +0000
>> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> OK, since sending my last email (after upgrading to , but before
>>> running "sa-update") we have been having problems:
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> mail:/var/log/exim4# grep BSMTP /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1
>>> 2007-02-27 17:10:34 1HM5le-0008Sj-5j <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 17:23:09 1HM5xn-00009Z-Cn <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 17:33:14 1HM67a-0000GO-BB <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 17:51:29 1HM6PC-0000UI-Kl <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 18:02:01 1HM6ZN-0000aK-JK <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 18:14:39 1HM6lf-0000hq-4x <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 18:31:31 1HM71z-0000rC-Qm <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 18:42:12 1HM7CJ-0000xC-Ss <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 18:42:14 1HM7CM-0000xN-HD <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-27 18:42:19 1HM7CR-0000xX-4h <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>>> a file of BSMTP input.
>>> ============================================================
>>>
>>> It looks like 1 in 2 messages, at least to myself, was failing to get
>>> through, and we have had to completely disable spamassassin
>>> unfortunately :-(
>>>
>>> According to our other IT guy who did the troubleshooting last night
>>> after i had gone home, this is what happened...
>>>
>>> He tried to email several of us, but for those of us who are
>>> "subscribed" to spamassassin the message failed to get through,
>>> stating:
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
>>> ============================================================
>>>
>>> "tail -100 /var/log/exim4/mainlog | grep user1" then gave:
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> 2007-02-28 01:34:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <= user1@remote.com
>>> H=mail19.messagelabs.com [193.109.254.3] P=smtp S=2421
>>> id=CD8C1BEE555637B798D93712@[10.0.0.200] T="RE: Firewall" from
>>> <us...@remote.com> for user2@domain.com user1@domain.com
>>> 2007-02-28 01:44:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <us...@domain.com>: sa_spamcheck
>>> transport output: An error was detected while processing a file of
>>> BSMTP input.
>>> 2007-02-28 01:44:28 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt ** user1@domain.com
>>> <us...@domain.com> F=<us...@remote.com> P=<us...@remote.com>
>>> R=sa_router T=sa_spamcheck: Child process of sa_spamcheck transport
>>> returned 2 from command: /usr/sbin/exim4
>>> ============================================================
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what's going on here?
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Richard.
>>>
>>>
>>> John Fleming wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The
>>>>> only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then
>>>>> restart spamd!
>>>> Consider:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and
>>>> what modules you might be missing and want. I had some missing
>>>> modules that I installed from the regular sarge distro that I
>>>> assume helped my functionality.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Add a channel for the SARE rulesets you want. This has been
>>>> discussed a lot the last couple of days.
>>>>
>>>> _____________________________________________________________________
>>>> This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business
>>>> Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For
>>>> further information visit http://www.mci.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>
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> Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator)
> Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group
> Email: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk
> Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/
> Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Which startup scripts? There are a lot of them, some of which might call
others... am i going to have to trawl through rc3.d or is there an
easier way?
Thanks again,
Richard.
Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:20:28 +0000
> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> As for memory softlimits - i have no idea. How can i check?
>
> In your startup scripts for exim you may have some commands softlimit /
> ulimit commands...
>
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Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:20:28 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> As for memory softlimits - i have no idea. How can i check?
In your startup scripts for exim you may have some commands softlimit /
ulimit commands...
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
I would hope upgrading exim is not necessary, because that could easily
become several weeks worth of approvals, testing, downtime etc...!
As for memory softlimits - i have no idea. How can i check?
Thanks again,
Richard.
Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> My only other thoughts are - maybe you may need to upgrade exim to a
> more recent version to keep the ability to talk to spamassassin working
> (probably not though...). Also have you got any memory softlimits set
> for exim / spamassassin or anything else ? In the past I've had issues
> with memory limits being hit which has meant only some messages have
> been getting through... Again I apologise as I'm probably not the best
> person to help solve your issue seeing as I've no experience in the
> exim side of things.
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:59:39 +0000
> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you for the link, but it's not for spamassassin... it does look
>> very similar to the config i have in exim for spamassassin though.
>>
>> Does anyone know if i do need to adjust the config in exim when
>> upgrading spamassassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" as per
>> the backports repository?
>>
>> My current exim config is as follows:
>
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Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group
Email: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk
Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/
Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
My only other thoughts are - maybe you may need to upgrade exim to a
more recent version to keep the ability to talk to spamassassin working
(probably not though...). Also have you got any memory softlimits set
for exim / spamassassin or anything else ? In the past I've had issues
with memory limits being hit which has meant only some messages have
been getting through... Again I apologise as I'm probably not the best
person to help solve your issue seeing as I've no experience in the
exim side of things.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:59:39 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the link, but it's not for spamassassin... it does look
> very similar to the config i have in exim for spamassassin though.
>
> Does anyone know if i do need to adjust the config in exim when
> upgrading spamassassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" as per
> the backports repository?
>
> My current exim config is as follows:
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Thank you for the link, but it's not for spamassassin... it does look
very similar to the config i have in exim for spamassassin though.
Does anyone know if i do need to adjust the config in exim when
upgrading spamassassin from "3.0.3-2sarge1" to "3.1.7-1~bpo.1" as per
the backports repository?
My current exim config is as follows:
Router:
============================================================
sa_router:
no_verify
check_local_user
# When to scan a message :
# - it isn't already flagged as spam from Spamassassin
# - it isn't already scanned
# - it isn't local
# - it isn't from one internal domain user to another
condition = "${if and { \
{!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} \
{!eq {$received_protocol}{local}} \
{!eq {$sender_address_domain}{$domain}} \
} \
{1}{0}}"
driver = accept
transport = sa_spamcheck
local_parts = /etc/spamassassinUsers
============================================================
Transport:
============================================================
sa_spamcheck:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/sbin/exim4 -oMr spam-scanned -bS
use_bsmtp = true
transport_filter = /usr/bin/spamc
home_directory = "/tmp"
current_directory = "/tmp"
user = spamcheck
group = spamcheck
log_output = true
return_fail_output = true
return_path_add = false
message_prefix =
message_suffix =
============================================================
As mentioned before, only *some* of the emails are failing. around 50%
were getting through fine.
Thanks again,
Richard.
Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> Looks like an exim problem to me, how is exim calling spamc?
> Unfortunately I have no exim experience whatsoever (I use qmail /
> qmailscanner) but maybe you need to revisit your exim config after the
> upgrade... This link may be of use but I'm not sure...
>
> http://sys-admin.org/en/node/21
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:30:19 +0000
> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> OK, since sending my last email (after upgrading to , but before
>> running "sa-update") we have been having problems:
>>
>> ============================================================
>> mail:/var/log/exim4# grep BSMTP /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1
>> 2007-02-27 17:10:34 1HM5le-0008Sj-5j <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 17:23:09 1HM5xn-00009Z-Cn <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 17:33:14 1HM67a-0000GO-BB <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 17:51:29 1HM6PC-0000UI-Kl <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 18:02:01 1HM6ZN-0000aK-JK <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 18:14:39 1HM6lf-0000hq-4x <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 18:31:31 1HM71z-0000rC-Qm <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 18:42:12 1HM7CJ-0000xC-Ss <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 18:42:14 1HM7CM-0000xN-HD <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-27 18:42:19 1HM7CR-0000xX-4h <us...@mail.domain.com>:
>> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
>> a file of BSMTP input.
>> ============================================================
>>
>> It looks like 1 in 2 messages, at least to myself, was failing to get
>> through, and we have had to completely disable spamassassin
>> unfortunately :-(
>>
>> According to our other IT guy who did the troubleshooting last night
>> after i had gone home, this is what happened...
>>
>> He tried to email several of us, but for those of us who are
>> "subscribed" to spamassassin the message failed to get through,
>> stating:
>>
>> ============================================================
>> 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
>> ============================================================
>>
>> "tail -100 /var/log/exim4/mainlog | grep user1" then gave:
>>
>> ============================================================
>> 2007-02-28 01:34:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <= user1@remote.com
>> H=mail19.messagelabs.com [193.109.254.3] P=smtp S=2421
>> id=CD8C1BEE555637B798D93712@[10.0.0.200] T="RE: Firewall" from
>> <us...@remote.com> for user2@domain.com user1@domain.com
>> 2007-02-28 01:44:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <us...@domain.com>: sa_spamcheck
>> transport output: An error was detected while processing a file of
>> BSMTP input.
>> 2007-02-28 01:44:28 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt ** user1@domain.com
>> <us...@domain.com> F=<us...@remote.com> P=<us...@remote.com>
>> R=sa_router T=sa_spamcheck: Child process of sa_spamcheck transport
>> returned 2 from command: /usr/sbin/exim4
>> ============================================================
>>
>> Does anyone know what's going on here?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>> John Fleming wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The
>>>> only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then
>>>> restart spamd!
>>> Consider:
>>>
>>> 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and
>>> what modules you might be missing and want. I had some missing
>>> modules that I installed from the regular sarge distro that I
>>> assume helped my functionality.
>>>
>>> 2) Add a channel for the SARE rulesets you want. This has been
>>> discussed a lot the last couple of days.
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________________________________
>>> This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business
>>> Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For
>>> further information visit http://www.mci.com
>>>
>>>
>
>
--
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Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group
Email: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk
Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/
Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
Looks like an exim problem to me, how is exim calling spamc?
Unfortunately I have no exim experience whatsoever (I use qmail /
qmailscanner) but maybe you need to revisit your exim config after the
upgrade... This link may be of use but I'm not sure...
http://sys-admin.org/en/node/21
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:30:19 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> OK, since sending my last email (after upgrading to , but before
> running "sa-update") we have been having problems:
>
> ============================================================
> mail:/var/log/exim4# grep BSMTP /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1
> 2007-02-27 17:10:34 1HM5le-0008Sj-5j <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 17:23:09 1HM5xn-00009Z-Cn <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 17:33:14 1HM67a-0000GO-BB <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 17:51:29 1HM6PC-0000UI-Kl <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 18:02:01 1HM6ZN-0000aK-JK <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 18:14:39 1HM6lf-0000hq-4x <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 18:31:31 1HM71z-0000rC-Qm <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 18:42:12 1HM7CJ-0000xC-Ss <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 18:42:14 1HM7CM-0000xN-HD <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-27 18:42:19 1HM7CR-0000xX-4h <us...@mail.domain.com>:
> sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing
> a file of BSMTP input.
> ============================================================
>
> It looks like 1 in 2 messages, at least to myself, was failing to get
> through, and we have had to completely disable spamassassin
> unfortunately :-(
>
> According to our other IT guy who did the troubleshooting last night
> after i had gone home, this is what happened...
>
> He tried to email several of us, but for those of us who are
> "subscribed" to spamassassin the message failed to get through,
> stating:
>
> ============================================================
> 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
> ============================================================
>
> "tail -100 /var/log/exim4/mainlog | grep user1" then gave:
>
> ============================================================
> 2007-02-28 01:34:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <= user1@remote.com
> H=mail19.messagelabs.com [193.109.254.3] P=smtp S=2421
> id=CD8C1BEE555637B798D93712@[10.0.0.200] T="RE: Firewall" from
> <us...@remote.com> for user2@domain.com user1@domain.com
> 2007-02-28 01:44:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <us...@domain.com>: sa_spamcheck
> transport output: An error was detected while processing a file of
> BSMTP input.
> 2007-02-28 01:44:28 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt ** user1@domain.com
> <us...@domain.com> F=<us...@remote.com> P=<us...@remote.com>
> R=sa_router T=sa_spamcheck: Child process of sa_spamcheck transport
> returned 2 from command: /usr/sbin/exim4
> ============================================================
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here?
>
> Thanks again,
> Richard.
>
>
> John Fleming wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The
> >> only other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then
> >> restart spamd!
> >
> > Consider:
> >
> > 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and
> > what modules you might be missing and want. I had some missing
> > modules that I installed from the regular sarge distro that I
> > assume helped my functionality.
> >
> > 2) Add a channel for the SARE rulesets you want. This has been
> > discussed a lot the last couple of days.
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business
> > Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For
> > further information visit http://www.mci.com
> >
> >
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
OK, since sending my last email (after upgrading to , but before running
"sa-update") we have been having problems:
============================================================
mail:/var/log/exim4# grep BSMTP /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1
2007-02-27 17:10:34 1HM5le-0008Sj-5j <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 17:23:09 1HM5xn-00009Z-Cn <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 17:33:14 1HM67a-0000GO-BB <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 17:51:29 1HM6PC-0000UI-Kl <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 18:02:01 1HM6ZN-0000aK-JK <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 18:14:39 1HM6lf-0000hq-4x <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 18:31:31 1HM71z-0000rC-Qm <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 18:42:12 1HM7CJ-0000xC-Ss <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 18:42:14 1HM7CM-0000xN-HD <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
2007-02-27 18:42:19 1HM7CR-0000xX-4h <us...@mail.domain.com>:
sa_spamcheck transport output: An error was detected while processing a
file of BSMTP input.
============================================================
It looks like 1 in 2 messages, at least to myself, was failing to get
through, and we have had to completely disable spamassassin
unfortunately :-(
According to our other IT guy who did the troubleshooting last night
after i had gone home, this is what happened...
He tried to email several of us, but for those of us who are
"subscribed" to spamassassin the message failed to get through, stating:
============================================================
421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
============================================================
"tail -100 /var/log/exim4/mainlog | grep user1" then gave:
============================================================
2007-02-28 01:34:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <= user1@remote.com
H=mail19.messagelabs.com [193.109.254.3] P=smtp S=2421
id=CD8C1BEE555637B798D93712@[10.0.0.200] T="RE: Firewall" from
<us...@remote.com> for user2@domain.com user1@domain.com
2007-02-28 01:44:27 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt <us...@domain.com>: sa_spamcheck
transport output: An error was detected while processing a file of BSMTP
input.
2007-02-28 01:44:28 1HMDi7-0004Gt-Qt ** user1@domain.com
<us...@domain.com> F=<us...@remote.com> P=<us...@remote.com> R=sa_router
T=sa_spamcheck: Child process of sa_spamcheck transport returned 2 from
command: /usr/sbin/exim4
============================================================
Does anyone know what's going on here?
Thanks again,
Richard.
John Fleming wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only
>> other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd!
>
> Consider:
>
> 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and what
> modules you might be missing and want. I had some missing modules that
> I installed from the regular sarge distro that I assume helped my
> functionality.
>
> 2) Add a channel for the SARE rulesets you want. This has been
> discussed a lot the last couple of days.
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
I have two problems currently:
1) sa-update may or may not be working - this is not urgent.
2) spamassassin itself is not working at all - this is very urgent! lol
Does anyone have any idea why sa has stopped working for me? Let's
ignore sa-update for the time being, unless it's relevant in terms of
getting sa working generally!
Thanks again people... i'm going to tackle sa-update again as soon as sa
actually works :-)
So... any ideas?
Thanks again,
Richard.
Gary V wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:52 +0000
>> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > IO::Socket::INET6
>> > IO::Socket::SSL
>> > DBI
>> > Mail::SPF::Query
>> > IP::Country::Fast
>> > Razor2::Client::Agent
>> > Net::Ident
>>
>> After a quick apt-cache search I'd suggest these should be what you
>> need:
>>
>> libsocket6-perl
>> libio-socket-ssl-perl
>> libima-dbi-perl
>> libmail-spf-query-perl
>> razor
>> libnet-ident-perl
>> libgeo-ipfree-perl
>> liblocale-subcountry-perl
>>
>>
>> Adam.
>
> I'm not convinced that missing modules are your problem. AFAIK (please
> correct me if I'm wrong) "require failed" in the debug output means a
> given module is not required for SA to function. If installed however it
> may turn on some currently unused feature. Remember that when installing
> SA via apt that required modules are installed as dependencies. In my
> experience each new version of SA is a little more resource intensive
> than the last. This generally means that scan times increase. If some
> work and some don't I suspect this could possibly be a timeout issue. Is
> there some sort of time limit involved where once that amount of time
> has passed the process errors out? If this is the problem then
> installing additional software like razor may further increase scan
> times and the problem should get worse and not better. As a test you
> might start spamd using only local tests ( --local ). This will greatly
> reduce scan times. If this works then I would consider the possibility
> of a timeout issue somewhere.
>
> Gary V
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Gary V <mr...@hotmail.com>.
>Hello,
>
>Quick question... This is a snippet from the exim mailing list:
>
> > The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check
> > through a FreeBSD Spamassassin change log does reveal that a
> > bug was introduced that gave problems with Exim, Spamassassin
> > and BSMTP:
> >
> > http://pkgsrc.se/mail/spamassassin
> > (bug 4966 in their numbering scheme)
> >
> > I'd check with the Debian package maintainers that this bug
> > has been fixed in the release they've put out.
>
>So... do you think i'm suffering this bug? The URL above indicates that
>it was fixed in 3.1.4, but am i suffering what looks like that bug, do
>you think?
>
>I'm still waiting to hear about the possible timeout setting in the exim
>config.
>
>Trouble is, with testing, if it goes wrong again, email is returned to
>the sender, and for people like my manager etc... this is unacceptable.
>
>Unfortunately, we do not have a test environment at the moment, so if i
>do make a change, i need to be as certain as i can be that it will fix
>the problem :-(
>
>Thanks again people...
>Richard.
>
Not being familiar with Exim4 I'm not sure what to suggest. The Debian
version of SA should have that patch applied. I saw no recent Exim related
bug reports on the Debian spamassassin page (but you may have discovered a
new bug). Just curious, what CPU/hardware are you running and how many
messages per day? I will mention that it is possible to downgrade back to
the stable (3.0.x) version of spamassassin provided you have not installed
programs (like FuzzyOcr) that depend on a 3.1.x version. Even if you did
install something like FuzzyOcr you could simply remove it. I doubt you have
made any incompatible changes to local.cf so there should be no reason you
couldn't keep your current files (/etc/default/spamassassin and
/etc/spamassassin/local.cf).
# apt-get install spamassassin/stable
# apt-get install spamc/stable
but only as a last resort. This worked for me on a test system - YMMV.
Yeah, a test box would come in handy here. Is anyone else out there using
this setup successfully?
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Quick question... This is a snippet from the exim mailing list:
> The routers and transports seem fine. However, a quick check
> through a FreeBSD Spamassassin change log does reveal that a
> bug was introduced that gave problems with Exim, Spamassassin
> and BSMTP:
>
> http://pkgsrc.se/mail/spamassassin
> (bug 4966 in their numbering scheme)
>
> I'd check with the Debian package maintainers that this bug
> has been fixed in the release they've put out.
So... do you think i'm suffering this bug? The URL above indicates that
it was fixed in 3.1.4, but am i suffering what looks like that bug, do
you think?
I'm still waiting to hear about the possible timeout setting in the exim
config.
Trouble is, with testing, if it goes wrong again, email is returned to
the sender, and for people like my manager etc... this is unacceptable.
Unfortunately, we do not have a test environment at the moment, so if i
do make a change, i need to be as certain as i can be that it will fix
the problem :-(
Thanks again people...
Richard.
Adam Wilbraham wrote:
>> You said in your other email that "since the --local option disables
>> net tests, SA may pass a lot more spam". Does this mean it will think
>> a lot of legit email is spam, whereas before it knew it was legit?
>
> Nope, he means the opposite - that a lot more spam will get through as
> clean, as the network tests which help identify spam won't be used.
>
>
> Adam.
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
> You said in your other email that "since the --local option disables
> net tests, SA may pass a lot more spam". Does this mean it will think
> a lot of legit email is spam, whereas before it knew it was legit?
Nope, he means the opposite - that a lot more spam will get through as
clean, as the network tests which help identify spam won't be used.
Adam.
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Replies inline...
Gary V wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> > If some work and some don't I suspect this could possibly
>> > be a timeout issue.
>>
>> It is a timeout... see my message at 09:30 GMT this morning...
>>
>> ============================================================
>> 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
>> ============================================================
>
> While it's not clear to me what process produced this message, I would
> assume it's EXIM's reply to the sender.
That is correct. That is the response the sender received from exim.
>> As for crashing out due to a possible time limit, how could i check
>> this? surely such a feature would be built into spamassassin, right?
>>
>
> I'm guessing here (because I have never used EXIM) but does EXIM set a
> default time limit on sa_router: or sa_spamcheck: ?
Not sure... i'll find out from the exim mailing list.
>> AFAIK, this is a standard debian sarge box, with exim installed and
>> configured, and not much else done to it. I could be wrong, but this is
>> most likely the case.
>>
>> Also, with regards to --local, what does this do, and how can i actually
>> run it this way?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>
> It disables network tests. I believe you can edit
> /etc/default/spamassassin and add it to the list of OPTIONS, e.g.:
>
> OPTIONS="--local --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir"
>
> then restart spamd
> /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
You said in your other email that "since the --local option disables net
tests, SA may pass a lot more spam". Does this mean it will think a lot
of legit email is spam, whereas before it knew it was legit?
Thanks again,
Richard.
> Why do you say sa-update is not working? SA-update will not pull new
> files if the files that exist are up to date. You can see if the new
> rules are being used or not if you run a quick spamassassin debug (note
> that --lint turns off net tests so this is not a full debug session):
>
> spamassassin --lint -D
>
> you should see stuff like:
>
> [27662] dbg: plugin: fixed relative path:
> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf
> [27662] dbg: config: using
> "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf"
> for included file
> [27662] dbg: config: read file
> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf
>
> Gary V
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Gary V <mr...@hotmail.com>.
>It disables network tests. I believe you can edit /etc/default/spamassassin
>and add it to the list of OPTIONS, e.g.:
>
>OPTIONS="--local --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir"
>
>then restart spamd
>/etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
>
In order to help diagnose the problem you may also want to run spamd in the
foreground (non daemonized). Stop the daemonized spamd. Start spamd and keep
the terminal session open. Open a different terminal session to work on Exim
and reenable sending to SA.
# /etc/init.d/spamassassin stop
# spamd
watch for obvious errors, [Ctrl]+c when finished - then
# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
to return to daemonized mode.
If you get errors that prevent spamd from returning some sort of result:
[5191] info: spamd: identified spam (8.9/5.0) for amavis:103 in 7.9 seconds,
5452 bytes.
Then you probably will have to once again disable sending mail to spamd and
restart EXIM until you get the issue resolved.
Note that since the --local option disables net tests, SA may pass a lot
more spam. Remember that this is only enabled to help diagnose the issue.
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Gary V <mr...@hotmail.com>.
>Hello,
>
> > If some work and some don't I suspect this could possibly
> > be a timeout issue.
>
>It is a timeout... see my message at 09:30 GMT this morning...
>
>============================================================
>421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
>============================================================
While it's not clear to me what process produced this message, I would
assume it's EXIM's reply to the sender.
>
>As for crashing out due to a possible time limit, how could i check
>this? surely such a feature would be built into spamassassin, right?
>
I'm guessing here (because I have never used EXIM) but does EXIM set a
default time limit on sa_router: or sa_spamcheck: ?
>AFAIK, this is a standard debian sarge box, with exim installed and
>configured, and not much else done to it. I could be wrong, but this is
>most likely the case.
>
>Also, with regards to --local, what does this do, and how can i actually
>run it this way?
>
>Thanks again,
>Richard.
>
>
It disables network tests. I believe you can edit /etc/default/spamassassin
and add it to the list of OPTIONS, e.g.:
OPTIONS="--local --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir"
then restart spamd
/etc/init.d/spamassassin restart
Why do you say sa-update is not working? SA-update will not pull new files
if the files that exist are up to date. You can see if the new rules are
being used or not if you run a quick spamassassin debug (note that --lint
turns off net tests so this is not a full debug session):
spamassassin --lint -D
you should see stuff like:
[27662] dbg: plugin: fixed relative path:
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf
[27662] dbg: config: using
"/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf"
for included file
[27662] dbg: config: read file
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
> If some work and some don't I suspect this could possibly
> be a timeout issue.
It is a timeout... see my message at 09:30 GMT this morning...
============================================================
421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned
============================================================
As for crashing out due to a possible time limit, how could i check
this? surely such a feature would be built into spamassassin, right?
AFAIK, this is a standard debian sarge box, with exim installed and
configured, and not much else done to it. I could be wrong, but this is
most likely the case.
Also, with regards to --local, what does this do, and how can i actually
run it this way?
Thanks again,
Richard.
Gary V wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:52 +0000
>> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > IO::Socket::INET6
>> > IO::Socket::SSL
>> > DBI
>> > Mail::SPF::Query
>> > IP::Country::Fast
>> > Razor2::Client::Agent
>> > Net::Ident
>>
>> After a quick apt-cache search I'd suggest these should be what you
>> need:
>>
>> libsocket6-perl
>> libio-socket-ssl-perl
>> libima-dbi-perl
>> libmail-spf-query-perl
>> razor
>> libnet-ident-perl
>> libgeo-ipfree-perl
>> liblocale-subcountry-perl
>>
>>
>> Adam.
>
> I'm not convinced that missing modules are your problem. AFAIK (please
> correct me if I'm wrong) "require failed" in the debug output means a
> given module is not required for SA to function. If installed however it
> may turn on some currently unused feature. Remember that when installing
> SA via apt that required modules are installed as dependencies. In my
> experience each new version of SA is a little more resource intensive
> than the last. This generally means that scan times increase. If some
> work and some don't I suspect this could possibly be a timeout issue. Is
> there some sort of time limit involved where once that amount of time
> has passed the process errors out? If this is the problem then
> installing additional software like razor may further increase scan
> times and the problem should get worse and not better. As a test you
> might start spamd using only local tests ( --local ). This will greatly
> reduce scan times. If this works then I would consider the possibility
> of a timeout issue somewhere.
>
> Gary V
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Gary V <mr...@hotmail.com>.
>On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:52 +0000
>Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > IO::Socket::INET6
> > IO::Socket::SSL
> > DBI
> > Mail::SPF::Query
> > IP::Country::Fast
> > Razor2::Client::Agent
> > Net::Ident
>
>After a quick apt-cache search I'd suggest these should be what you
>need:
>
>libsocket6-perl
>libio-socket-ssl-perl
>libima-dbi-perl
>libmail-spf-query-perl
>razor
>libnet-ident-perl
>libgeo-ipfree-perl
>liblocale-subcountry-perl
>
>
>Adam.
I'm not convinced that missing modules are your problem. AFAIK (please
correct me if I'm wrong) "require failed" in the debug output means a given
module is not required for SA to function. If installed however it may turn
on some currently unused feature. Remember that when installing SA via apt
that required modules are installed as dependencies. In my experience each
new version of SA is a little more resource intensive than the last. This
generally means that scan times increase. If some work and some don't I
suspect this could possibly be a timeout issue. Is there some sort of time
limit involved where once that amount of time has passed the process errors
out? If this is the problem then installing additional software like razor
may further increase scan times and the problem should get worse and not
better. As a test you might start spamd using only local tests ( --local ).
This will greatly reduce scan times. If this works then I would consider the
possibility of a timeout issue somewhere.
Gary V
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:52 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> IO::Socket::INET6
> IO::Socket::SSL
> DBI
> Mail::SPF::Query
> IP::Country::Fast
> Razor2::Client::Agent
> Net::Ident
After a quick apt-cache search I'd suggest these should be what you
need:
libsocket6-perl
libio-socket-ssl-perl
libima-dbi-perl
libmail-spf-query-perl
razor
libnet-ident-perl
libgeo-ipfree-perl
liblocale-subcountry-perl
Adam.
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
I have now run "sa-update -D" and it has produced this:
============================================================
mail:~# sa-update -D
[2304] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all
[2304] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG
[2304] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7
[2304] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen.
[2304] dbg: message: ---- MIME PARSER START ----
[2304] dbg: message: main message type: text/plain
[2304] dbg: message: parsing normal part
[2304] dbg: message: added part, type: text/plain
[2304] dbg: message: ---- MIME PARSER END ----
[2304] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes
[2304] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.59
[2304] dbg: generic: sa-update version svn454083
[2304] dbg: generic: using update directory: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007
[2304] dbg: diag: perl platform: 5.008004 linux
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: Digest::SHA1, version 2.10
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: IO::Socket::INET6 ('require' failed)
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: IO::Socket::SSL ('require' failed)
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: Time::HiRes, version 1.59
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: DBI ('require' failed)
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: Getopt::Long, version 2.34
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: LWP::UserAgent, version 2.033
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: HTTP::Date, version 1.46
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: Archive::Tar, version 1.23
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Zlib, version 1.04
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: DB_File, version 1.808
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: HTML::Parser, version 3.45
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: MIME::Base64, version 3.04
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::DNS, version 0.59
[2304] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::SMTP, version 2.30
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: Mail::SPF::Query ('require' failed)
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: IP::Country::Fast ('require' failed)
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: Razor2::Client::Agent ('require'
failed)
[2304] dbg: diag: module not installed: Net::Ident ('require' failed)
[2304] dbg: gpg: Searching for 'gpg'
[2304] dbg: util: current PATH is:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
[2304] dbg: util: executable for gpg was found at /usr/bin/gpg
[2304] dbg: gpg: found /usr/bin/gpg
[2304] dbg: gpg: release trusted key id list:
5E541DC959CB8BAC7C78DFDC4056A61A5244EC45
26C900A46DD40CD5AD24F6D7DEE01987265FA05B
0C2B1D7175B852C64B3CDC716C55397824F434CE
[2304] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org
[2304] dbg: channel: update directory
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org
[2304] dbg: channel: channel cf file
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org.cf
[2304] dbg: channel: channel pre file
/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org.pre
[2304] dbg: channel: metadata version = 507739
[2304] dbg: dns: 7.1.3.updates.spamassassin.org => 507739, parsed as 507739
[2304] dbg: channel: current version is 507739, new version is 507739,
skipping channel
[2304] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1
mail:~#
============================================================
I seem to have the following missing Perl libraries:
IO::Socket::INET6
IO::Socket::SSL
DBI
Mail::SPF::Query
IP::Country::Fast
Razor2::Client::Agent
Net::Ident
You said that you installed the missing modules from the regular sarge
distro, but i can't seem to find exact matches for any of them using
"apt-cache search". Any suggestions? Or, failing that, could you
possibly tell me the exact package names for the above modules so i can
install them easily? :-)
Thanks again,
Richard.
John Fleming wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only
>> other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd!
>
> Consider:
>
> 1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and what
> modules you might be missing and want. I had some missing modules that
> I installed from the regular sarge distro that I assume helped my
> functionality.
>
> 2) Add a channel for the SARE rulesets you want. This has been
> discussed a lot the last couple of days.
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by John Fleming <jo...@wa9als.com>.
----- Original Message -----
> There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only
> other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd!
Consider:
1) Run sa-update -D so you can see what it does or tries to do and what
modules you might be missing and want. I had some missing modules that I
installed from the regular sarge distro that I assume helped my
functionality.
2) Add a channel for the SARE rulesets you want. This has been discussed a
lot the last couple of days.
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Gary V <mr...@hotmail.com>.
>Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
>There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only
>other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd!
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you :-)
> >
> > Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other
> > that restart the spamassassin daemon?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Hobbs.
> >
> >
> > Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> > > Yupp - try giving apt-get the "-t sarge-backports" switch to force
> > > it to download from that repository, eg:
> > >
> > > apt-get install -t sarge-backports spamassassin spamc
If you were using DCC (and abiding by the license) you will want to
uncomment this in v310.pre:
#loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:36:32 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
There shouldn't be, from what I recall its as simple as that. The only
other thing you'll want to do is run sa-update and then restart spamd!
> Hello,
>
> Thank you :-)
>
> Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other
> that restart the spamassassin daemon?
>
> Thanks again,
> Hobbs.
>
>
> Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> > Yupp - try giving apt-get the "-t sarge-backports" switch to force
> > it to download from that repository, eg:
> >
> > apt-get install -t sarge-backports spamassassin spamc
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32:39 +0000
> > Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Thank you for this... i've added that line
> >> to /etc/apt/sources.list, and run an "apt-get update".
> >>
> >> However, when i then run "apt-get install spamassassin" it says:
> >>
> >> spamassassin is already the newest version.
> >>
> >> As mentioned before, i'm actually running 3.0.3-2sarge1.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> The source does appear to have been added correctly, because during
> >> the "apt-get update" it downloaded several files.
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Richard.
> >>
> >>
> >> Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> >>> I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely
> >>> fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run
> >>> sa-update. Backports repo is:
> >>>
> >>> deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib
> >>> non-free
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 +0000
> >>> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for
> >>>> over 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via
> >>>> backports?
> >>>>
> >>>> Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks again,
> >>>> Richard.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> John Fleming wrote:
> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hobbs"
> >>>>> <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
> >>>>> To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
> >>>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
> >>>>> Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable
> >>>>>> spamassassin available through the standard debian
> >>>>>> repositories - "spamassassin 3.0.3-2sarge1".
> >>>>> I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works
> >>>>> great!
> >>>>> - John
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _____________________________________________________________________
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Thank you :-)
Once i've run the command below, is there anything i need to do, other
that restart the spamassassin daemon?
Thanks again,
Hobbs.
Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> Yupp - try giving apt-get the "-t sarge-backports" switch to force it
> to download from that repository, eg:
>
> apt-get install -t sarge-backports spamassassin spamc
>
> Adam.
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32:39 +0000
> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you for this... i've added that line to /etc/apt/sources.list,
>> and run an "apt-get update".
>>
>> However, when i then run "apt-get install spamassassin" it says:
>>
>> spamassassin is already the newest version.
>>
>> As mentioned before, i'm actually running 3.0.3-2sarge1.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> The source does appear to have been added correctly, because during
>> the "apt-get update" it downloaded several files.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>> Adam Wilbraham wrote:
>>> I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely
>>> fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run
>>> sa-update. Backports repo is:
>>>
>>> deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib
>>> non-free
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 +0000
>>> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for
>>>> over 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via
>>>> backports?
>>>>
>>>> Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> Richard.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> John Fleming wrote:
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hobbs"
>>>>> <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
>>>>> To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
>>>>> Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
>>>>>> available through the standard debian repositories -
>>>>>> "spamassassin 3.0.3-2sarge1".
>>>>> I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works
>>>>> great!
>>>>> - John
>>>>>
>>>>> _____________________________________________________________________
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
Yupp - try giving apt-get the "-t sarge-backports" switch to force it
to download from that repository, eg:
apt-get install -t sarge-backports spamassassin spamc
Adam.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:32:39 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for this... i've added that line to /etc/apt/sources.list,
> and run an "apt-get update".
>
> However, when i then run "apt-get install spamassassin" it says:
>
> spamassassin is already the newest version.
>
> As mentioned before, i'm actually running 3.0.3-2sarge1.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> The source does appear to have been added correctly, because during
> the "apt-get update" it downloaded several files.
>
> Thanks again,
> Richard.
>
>
> Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> > I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely
> > fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run
> > sa-update. Backports repo is:
> >
> > deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 +0000
> > Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for
> >> over 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via
> >> backports?
> >>
> >> Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge?
> >>
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Richard.
> >>
> >>
> >> John Fleming wrote:
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hobbs"
> >>> <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
> >>> To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
> >>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
> >>> Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
> >>>> available through the standard debian repositories -
> >>>> "spamassassin 3.0.3-2sarge1".
> >>> I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works
> >>> great!
> >>> - John
> >>>
> >>> _____________________________________________________________________
> >>> This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business
> >>> Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For
> >>> further information visit http://www.mci.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Thank you for this... i've added that line to /etc/apt/sources.list, and
run an "apt-get update".
However, when i then run "apt-get install spamassassin" it says:
spamassassin is already the newest version.
As mentioned before, i'm actually running 3.0.3-2sarge1.
Any ideas?
The source does appear to have been added correctly, because during the
"apt-get update" it downloaded several files.
Thanks again,
Richard.
Adam Wilbraham wrote:
> I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely
> fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run
> sa-update. Backports repo is:
>
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 +0000
> Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for over
>> 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via backports?
>>
>> Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>> John Fleming wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hobbs"
>>> <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
>>> To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
>>> Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
>>>> available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin
>>>> 3.0.3-2sarge1".
>>> I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works great!
>>> - John
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________________________________
>>> This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business
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>>> further information visit http://www.mci.com
>>>
>>>
>
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Adam Wilbraham <ad...@technophobia.com>.
I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely
fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run
sa-update. Backports repo is:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 +0000
Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for over
> 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via backports?
>
> Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge?
>
> Thanks again,
> Richard.
>
>
> John Fleming wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hobbs"
> > <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
> > To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
> > Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
> >> available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin
> >> 3.0.3-2sarge1".
> >
> > I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works great!
> > - John
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by Verizon Business
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> > further information visit http://www.mci.com
> >
> >
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Richard Hobbs <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>.
Hello,
Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for over
200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via backports?
Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge?
Thanks again,
Richard.
John Fleming wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Hobbs"
> <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
> To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
> Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
>> available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin
>> 3.0.3-2sarge1".
>
> I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works great!
> - John
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by John Fleming <jo...@wa9als.com>.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hobbs" <ri...@crl.toshiba.co.uk>
To: <us...@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM
Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
> Hello,
>
> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
> available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin
> 3.0.3-2sarge1".
I upgraded Debian sarge from 3.0 to 3.1 via backports - works great!
- John
Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Maciej Friedel <bi...@wwv.pl>.
> BUT... the "sa-update" command doesn't seem to exist on my system...
any
> ideas?
You need upgrade to 3.1.x if You neet tu use sa-update
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Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system
Posted by Matt Kettler <mk...@verizon.net>.
Richard Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin
> available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin
> 3.0.3-2sarge1".
>
> As you can imagine, having not done an update of the rules for a very
> long time, it's pretty useless these days, so i was wondering how
> "sa-update" worked.
>
> BUT... the "sa-update" command doesn't seem to exist on my system... any
> ideas?
>
sa-update exists in 3.1.0 and newer. The current version of SpamAssassin
is 3.1.8.
One thing to remember is that the debian stable repositories are just
that. Stable. They do not have the latest versions of everything, and
adopt new versions slowly and only after reliablilty is proven.