Hi, I installed SpamAssassing three days ago and am absolutely delighted at the job it does recognising spam. What a great piece of software!
There is, however, a substantial problem, as I discovered. SA sometimes not splits messages properly, and as a result, messages may get lost. I would appreciate any suggestions from the list for help. I am running SA 2.31 here -- upgrading from 2.30 was the first step, but the problem persists. The system is SuSE 7.1, and I am collecting mail with fetchmail. .fetchmailrc includes the line 'mda "/usr/bin/spamassassin -F 1"'. This passes everything fetchmail collects to SA for processing (this I have from mancill.com/freesoftware/linuxtips). Incorporating my mail is done via slocal (I use exmh which is based on mh) and thus uses the .maildelivery file (where I have dozens of rules on how to distribute mail from the spoolfile to various folders. The most recent one puts *****SPAM***** subjects into the folder spam ;-) I have, however, checked the /var/spool/mail file, and thus I can say that the problem occurs here: sometimes, the empty line before the line starting with "From " is missing (the two combined indicate the start of a new message), and as a result, two messages are lumped into one. The consequence is, of course, that one may miss a message, especially if the resulting message is put into the spam folder. I recognize that this may be a problem peculiar to my machine, but I would very much appreciate pointers as to how to fix it. While I admire SA's capabilities, searching conscientiously through each message whether it has been lumped together with another one costs me more time than SA saves me by brilliantly detecting spam. Many thanks in advance, Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Busch Centre for European Politics, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Economics and Society Web: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~busch University of Oxford Tel. (+44)-1865-278 704 3 George Street Mews Fax. (+44)-1865-278 725 Oxford OX1 2AA, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
