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spamassassin trouble

I have this server which supposedly has SpamAssassin installed. I did:

ps -aux | grep spamd

...and that is indeed running.

**EDIT** This is a mistake. There is no spamd running... (and I'm not sure there is ever supposed to be)

However, I'm not sure if any spam filtering is happening. I went to my yahoo mail account and sent the following message to the server:

subject: spm test

body: blah blah blah Penis Enlargement blah blah blah

Now there is a rule in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/ local.cf file that looks like this:

body LOCAL_PENIS_RULE =~ /Penis Enlargement/i
score LOCAL_PENIS_RULE 10

I don't think that email should have gone through. What else can I check to make sure this thing is actually working correctly?

I believe amavisd should be filtering the mail once spamassassin has tagged it

OK, let's start over.

I'm running Free BSD 5.2.1 with sendmail. Before vanishing into the night (i.e. resigning) the previous admin wrote the following flow chart:

Code:

sendmail-rx --> amavisd --> sendmail-tx

                  |

                  |

                clamav

                spamassassin

That's how he wrote it. He explained that the sendmail-rx receives mail from outside and also outgoing user email, passes it through the spam and virus filter and then the sendmail-tx either sends the mail out to the world or dumps it in the users inbox depending on where it was originally headed.

All I really want to do at the moment is tweak the spamassassin configuration as one very important user is complaining about getting massive spam.

I suspect the spam filter isn't even on at the moment. Any help troubleshooting this would be appreciated.

Quote:

body LOCAL_PENIS_RULE =~ /Penis Enlargement/i
score LOCAL_PENIS_RULE 10

You don't need the =~ before the string you're trying to catch. For more detail take a look here.
Don't forget to run

Code:

spamassassin --lint

to test your configuration.

I did spamassassin --lint and got:

Code:

Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-freebsd/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so' for module HTML::Parser: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-freebsd/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so: Undefined symbol "PL_unitcheckav" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-freebsd/XSLoader.pm line 70.

 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-freebsd/HTML/Parser.pm line 17

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 26.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 26.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 42.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 42.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 49.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message.pm line 49.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 73.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 73.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/spamassassin line 79.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/spamassassin line 79.

No wonder it's not running. Any idea what all that means?

From the 1st line of the error you get it seems that you've upgraded perl from 5.8.8 to the latest 5.10.0 and that the HTML::Parser module was installed using 5.8.8.
I think that you should reinstall spamassassin (dependencies, like HTML::Parser etc must be reinstalled first) to use the newer perl.

oh wonderful...

that's exactly the kind of thing I was trying to avoid :)

me and freebsd aren't very friendly, I was going to migrate this machine to open suse 10 at the end of the year.