Re: Sudden instability

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 09), SG said:
> > If that doesn't work, try adding "-d misc,spamc" to the spamass-milter
> > commandline.  That will log the data sent/received from spamc, so we
> > can see whether spamassassin really was able to process the message.
> 
> Sorry about that... I'm attaching a .txt file here w/ 2 messages
> where the spamass-milter doesn't seem to be working...  I turned off
> autolearn - but still am getting bayes journal errors - but had been
> getting these all along (before this issue). I still want to use
> bayes to catch incoming spam - I train it manaully.

Something's definitely wrong inside spamassassin.  I've exploded out
the lines where spamass-milter reads the processed message from spamc:

> Jul  9 17:53:31 spameater spamd[27966]: connection from localhost.my-org.com 
> [127.0.0.1] at port 3912 
> Jul  9 17:53:31 spameater spamd[33326]: info: setuid to root succeeded 
> Jul  9 17:53:31 spameater spamd[33326]: Still running as root: user not 
> specified with -u, not found, or set to root.  Fall back to nobody. 
> Jul  9 17:53:31 spameater spamd[33326]: processing message <address@hidden> 
> for root:65534. 
> Jul  9 17:53:32 spameater spamd[33326]: cannot write to 
> /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored 
> Jul  9 17:53:33 spameater spamass-milter[32535]: input  "
>   X-Envelope-From: <address@hidden>
>   X-Envelope-To: <address@hidden>
>   Received: from localhost (localhost.my-org.com [127.0.0.1]) by 
> spameater.my-org.com; 
>   Received: from imail9.big-isp.com [207.21.208.37]   by localhost with POP3 
> (fetchmail-6.2.5)        for address@hidden (single-drop); Fri, 09 Jul 2004 
> 17:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
>   Received: from EPRODUCT-HU [212.71.154.100] by    (SMTPD32-7.15) id 
> A1EA1DBE0104; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:45:14 -0400
>   Received: from 86.120.81.14 by 212.71.154.100; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:34:46 
> +0200
>   Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>   From: "Trevor Mcdonald" <address@hidden>
>   Reply-To: "Trevor Mcdonald" <address@hidden>
>   To: address@hidden
>   Subject: RE:  code # DE041
>   Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:46 -0500
>   X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
>   MIME-Version: 1.0
>   Content-Type: multipart/alternative;        boundary="--1112645159876478"
>   X-Priority: 3
>   X-
> Jul  9 17:53:33 spameater spamass-milter[32535]: input  "
>   m>
>   Status: U
>   X-UIDL: 348334084
>   
>   ----1112645159876478
>   Content-Type: text/plain;
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

etc.  If spamassassin had processed that message it should have had
X-Spam headers added to it, but there's nothing.

As another test, try saving that message to a file and piping it though
spamc, which is just what spamass-milter does, so you should be able to
reproduce the problem.

-- 
        Dan Nelson
        address@hidden