[cobalt-users] mailscanner and spamassassin sorta half working ;/

[DanO <dano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

heya folks-

after a little bit of headbanging, i've successfully gotten
mailscanner up and running on my system and (supposedly) talking to
spamassassin

in testing, known emails containing virii have been sent and filtered
(tagged with the {VIRUS?} subject line w/attachments removed), but it
appears that spamassassin is not doing its job of filtering the mail.

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i have the following in my mailscanner.conf file:

Use SpamAssassin = yes
Max SpamAssassin Size = 50000
SpamAssassin Timeout = 25
SpamAssassin Prefs File = /home/opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = yes
Compile SpamAssassin Once = yes
Always Include SpamAssassin Report = yes

i have also enabled the follwoing in spam.assassin.prefs.conf

defang_mime 1
skip_rbl_checks 1

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there is an error when i restart the MailScanner daemon, as follows:

<snip>

[root etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailscanner restart
Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
              MailScanner:       ERROR!
              incoming sendmail: sendmail ok
              outgoing sendmail: sendmail ok
Starting MailScanner daemons:
         incoming sendmail: ok
         outgoing sendmail: ok
         MailScanner:       ok
[root etc]#

</snip>

i am using the Bassi MailScanner pkg and SpamAssassin 2.50 downloaded
from CPAN, installed manually from command line as root.

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i'm hoping someone has seen something similar here before...i'm
thinking it may be a perl version problem, but reticent to upgrade
perl due to fears of breaking the Cobalt GUI

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casting hope into the ether,
DanO