Two problems with SA 2.63

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pa...@utdallas.edu>]

I'm running a small hobby domain and using SA 2.63 on FreeBSD 4.9
RELEASE, and I have two problems I'm hoping I can resolve with list
help.

1) I run Postfix 2.019, and I feed mail to a filter script (owned and
run by a user named "filter") that calls spamassassin (not spamd and
spamc - it's a very low volume site for mail) and puts spam in a
directory (/var/spool/spam/).  (Ham goes back to Postfix for delivery.)
For some reason, bayes quit working, and I can't figure out why.  If I
su to filter and run spamassassin -D --lint, it includes a bayes score
in the output.  If I then run a test message through spamassassin using
-D, it also shows the bayes score.  Yet none of the emails quarantined
has any bayes score.  I originally couldn't get bayes working, and after
troubleshooting I discovered that the permissions on the bayes dbs were
wrong.  (Filter didn't have read access.)  I've rechecked that
(obviously), but still no joy.

I'm sure I'm missing something trivial.  I just don't know what it is.
I'm open to suggestions.  :-)

2) I created a file named bad_domains.cf, and I put urls from the
message body in there.  The format I'm using is:

uri CREDIT_CHECK  /creditbozos\.com/I
score CREDIT_CHECK 5 

But I don't see *any* of the entries showing up in the header field
"X-Spam-Report".  I've read the docs over and over ( both man and doc)
and I've googled like crazy.  I think I'm doing it right, but they still
don't show up.  What am I missing here?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

Re: Two problems with SA 2.63

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 06:10 PM 4/29/2004, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
>2) I created a file named bad_domains.cf, and I put urls from the
>message body in there.  The format I'm using is:
>
>uri CREDIT_CHECK  /creditbozos\.com/I
>score CREDIT_CHECK 5
>
>But I don't see *any* of the entries showing up in the header field
>"X-Spam-Report".

Change that ending I to an i (lower case) and you should be fine.

Next time check spamassassin --lint:

spamassassin --lint
Bareword found where operator expected at (no file), rule CREDIT_CHECK, 
line 1, near "/creditbozos\.com/I"
         (Missing operator before I?)
Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
         (syntax error at (no file), rule CREDIT_CHECK, line 1, near 
"/creditbozos\.com/I"