Spam filter loosing loads of mail

[zetnsh]

Hi there,

I've recently migrated an ISPConfig2 installation to a new server using the procedure at http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...88&postcount=2 - you may have noticed the odd posting about it

Everything's working great on the first server I migrated, except e-mail. Unless you turn Spam Filtering off for each user account, that account looses most if not all incoming mail. It just disappears into procmail never to be seen again!

Anyone know where to start debugging this?

Thanks in advance,

Neil

[till]

I guess you mix up the spamfilter with the mailfilter option. Please disable the "mailfilter" checkbox. mailfilter is a system that removes potential harmful content and should normally niot be used as it is possible that complete emails will be removed.

[zetnsh]

Thanks Till, but I don't think that's the case, particularly since the ISPConfig database was migrated as-is from the old server (apart from the isp-server table which was taken from a fresh test install on the system). This was all working fine on the old server...

For each affected user MailScan is NOT ticked, Antivirus IS ticked, Spamfilter WAS ticked, but is now NOT ticked, which fixes the problem, except that I would actually like spam filtering

I was wondering if it was a case of training SpamAssassin with Ham/Spam, but I don't remember having to do that in the past. What do you think? Happy to post any relevant configs as needed.

Thanks again, Neil

[till]

Please check this:

http://www.faqforge.com/linux/how-to...ast_20xx-rule/

[zetnsh]

I've done the following:

:~$ /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.2.5
  running on Perl version 5.10.0

But I don't think the version of spam assassin actually changed, particularly since the ISPConfig was only downloaded a week or two ago.

Can you think of any log files I could check in which will show SpamAssassin's scoring? Can't see anything obvious...

Thanks!

Neil

[till]

Please do the update procedure that is described on faqforge.

[zetnsh]

Sorry, I should have clarified I have done that procedure, I ran this:

/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/usr/bin/sa-update

I checked the spam assassin version before and after and nothing seemed to have changed... I couldn't find any spam assassin rule files with changed modification dates, but of course I may have been looking in the wrong place, I was expecting to see changed files in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/tools/spamassassin/etc/mail/spamassassin as well...

Thanks, Neil

[till]

I checked the spam assassin version before and after and nothing seemed to have changed...

Thats ok, as this does not update the spamassasin version, it updates the ruleset.

[peterj]

You might check your spamassassin.rc file and verity that tagged mail is not being sent to /dev/null

[zetnsh]

Sorry for the delay in replying to this thread, and thank you both for your comments. The sa-update script seems to have done the trick, the server in question is now processing mail as it should.

Do you reckon it's worth running this automatically from cron, as it doesn't seem to be set up in root's crontab by ISPConfig?

Thanks, Neil