SpamAssassin stops working

[heygazeebo]

Hi Everyone,

I followed falko's guide to setting up postfix / mysql etc. on debian, and then followed the guide to add mailfiltering to it. After just a bit of tinkering it mostly worked properly, until i noticed that at some point SpamAssassin had stopped scanning my emails. As best i can figure it was when i added in the mailfiltering portion of the setup. Virus detection is still working, but not Spam. Anybody have any suggestions?

[falko]

Are there any errors in your log files?

[heygazeebo]

No, the only mention i see of anything related to spam in the log files is when it tagged somthing as spam.

It does say this when i start amavisd...

May 28 03:24:11 localhost amavis[16093]: Module Mail::SpamAssassin 3.000003

It says that among the list of modules....

I checked syslog and mail.log and mail.err, the only error i am seeing is this one:

localhost dccproc[16115]: socket(UDP): Address family not supported by protocol

Im not sure what that one means though..

Thanks,

[falko]

You could try to update to the latest SpamAssassin version. Hopefully that solves the problem...

[heygazeebo]

Can you tell me how to find out what version of spamassassin i am running?

I did this:

/usr/bin/spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.0.3
  running on Perl version 5.8.4

But i do not think that is the correct?

I did apt-get upgrade spamassassin and it upgraded a lot of stuff, but that version stayed the same

apt-get upgrade spamassassin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libmysqlclient12 lynx mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server postfix
  postfix-mysql postfix-tls
8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I am seeing this in my headers to my email, but nothing to mention Spam anymore..

X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at localhost

[falko]

Originally Posted by heygazeebo

Can you tell me how to find out what version of spamassassin i am running?

I did this:

/usr/bin/spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.0.3
  running on Perl version 5.8.4

But i do not think that is the correct?

That is the correct way to find out.

I did apt-get upgrade spamassassin and it upgraded a lot of stuff, but that version stayed the same

The packages are not always up to date. If you want the newest version, you must compile it yourself.