SpamAssassin stops working

[heygazeebo]

nope, havent changed that file at all.. ill delete it and re-create it based on the HOW-TO... maybe i inadvertantly edited it...

I don't think this has anything to do with it, but if i do an saslauthd restart, it says saslauthd not running, and when it tries to restart it fails...

/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart
Stopping SASL Authentication Daemon: (not running).
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: (failed)

Im not sure if that could have any relevence, i have been playing a lot with my install and when i ran that command it seemed a little odd...

[heygazeebo]

I redid the conf file amavisd.conf but it still does not appear to be invoking spamassassin...

[falko]

Is SpamAssassin in this path?

$path = '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin';

Please edit /etc/init.d/saslauthd and change PIDFILE to

PIDFILE="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME}/saslauthd.pid"

[heygazeebo]

Thanks, that solved the SASL thing, i'm sorry i missed that in the How-To...

SpamAssassin is located in /usr/bin, and has the following permissions...

/usr/bin# ls -la spamassassin 
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 24717 2006-06-03 05:10 spamassassin

If i do a whereis spamassassin i get this:

whereis spamassassin
spamassassin: /usr/src/spamassassin-3.0.3/spamassassin.raw /usr/src/spamassassin-3.0.3/spamassassin.spec /usr/bin/spamassassin /etc/spamassassin /usr/share/spamassassin /usr/share/man/man1/spamassassin.1p.gz

[falko]

What's in /var/log/mail.warn and /var/log/mail.err?

When you restart amavisd, do you see any errors in /var/log/mail.log?

[heygazeebo]

Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: starting.  amavisd-new at danbury amavisd-new-20030616-p10, Unicode aware, LANG=en_US
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Perl version               5.008004
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Amavis::Conf        1.15
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Archive::Tar        1.23
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Archive::Zip        1.14
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Compress::Zlib      1.34
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Convert::TNEF       0.17
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Convert::UUlib      1.051
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module DBI                 1.46
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module DB_File             1.808
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module MIME::Entity        5.417
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module MIME::Parser        5.417
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module MIME::Tools         5.417
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Mail::Header        1.62
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Mail::Internet      1.62
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Mail::SpamAssassin  3.001002
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Net::Cmd            2.26
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Net::DNS            0.48
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Net::SMTP           2.29
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Net::Server         0.87
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Time::HiRes         1.59
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9849]: Module Unix::Syslog        0.100
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $file       at /usr/bin/file
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9850]: No $arc,          not using it
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $gzip       at /bin/gzip
Jun  8 11:44:26 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $bzip2      at /usr/bin/bzip2
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: No $lzop,         not using it
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: No $lha,          not using it
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $unarj      at /usr/bin/arj
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $uncompress at /bin/uncompress
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: No $unfreeze,     not using it
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: No $unrar,        not using it
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $zoo        at /usr/bin/zoo
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: Found $cpio       at /bin/cpio
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: Using internal av scanner code for (primary) Clam Antivirus-clamd
Jun  8 11:44:27 localhost amavis[9850]: Found secondary av scanner Clam Antivirus - clamscan at /usr/bin/clamscan

I didn't see anything that looked out of the ordinary.. the only things that were mentioned in the .warn and .err files were disconnections from IMAP, saying i had logged off...

[falko]

And spam filtering doesn't work at all? Is there nothing in the header of emails you receive that suggests that it went through SpamAssassin?

[heygazeebo]

When i first installed it, i got this:

X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at localhos
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.6 tagged_above=3.0 required=4.0 tests=AWL,
	HELO_EQ_NO_DOT, HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D, HOST_MISMATCH_NET, HTML_90_100,
	HTML_MESSAGE, IP_NOT_FRIENDLY, MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID
X-Spam-Level: ****
X-Spam-Flag: YES

Now:

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

and thats it, its like its skipping over SpamAssassin Completely...

I must have done somthing wrong somewhere or somthing, i am just at a total loss at the moment..

[falko]

Try to remember what you did before it stopped working...

[heygazeebo]

Originally Posted by falko

Try to remember what you did before it stopped working...

Everything seemed to be working fine until i added the second how to, to add maildrop capabilities.. thats when spamassassin seems to have stopped working.

I think i am just going to completely redo a second box and see what happens. I am at a loss right now, im just not sure what i have done wrong. I find it extremely strange that there are no messages in any long files anywhere, and it seems that no matter what i do or upgrade everything works except spamassassin. I'm not sure, i will try and put together a second box ASAP and see what happens.

Thanks for all your help on this, i appreciate it.