[Spamassassin Wiki] Update of "HowToDebug" by ChrisPrice

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   * Run ''''spamassassin --lint'''', especially if you just added anything to your *.cf files or a user_prefs file.  Often times you might have something slightly wrong and either a) SpamAssassin stops parsing the file or b) it's just plain wrong and causing the error.
  
   * Run with ''''-D''''.  The debug output from spamassassin, sa-learn, spamd is sometimes very verbose, but it also gives you a large amount of data that can be very helpful.  Often times debug is the only place to see what exactly is causing your error.  When running ''spamd'' with ''-D'' you will see some initial startup activity, you can ignore this, it is just scanning a test message to help do the initial load of the perl modules.
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+  * Sometimes its necessary to output the SpamAssassin debug information to a file.  This can be done by redirecting stdout to a file and then redirecting stderr to the same location. Run ''''spamassassin -D --lint > test.log 2>&1''''.
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