Need help / direction
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Manigault
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:16 PM
To: Spamassassin (E-mail)
Subject: Spamassassin errors
I am running Postfix, Procmail, SpamC / SpamD and I am getting the
following messages occassionally.
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Oct 27 14:55:08 AREA51 spamd[23120]: Couldn't create readable
default_prefs for [//.spamassassin/user_prefs]
Oct 27 14:55:49 AREA51 spamd[23162]: Creating default_prefs
[//.spamassassin/user_prefs]
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It seems like spamd is the culprit but I don't know how to fix it. Where
is the directory //.spamassassin/user_prefs?
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cat procmailrc
# The # denotes the original info in the file.
#DROPPRIVS=yes
#:0fwHB
#| /usr/bin/spamassassin
#:0
#* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
#$HOME/spam
####################################################################
#
# This is the new procmail procedure.
# ####################################################################
DROPPRIVS=yes
# SpamAssassin sample procmailrc
#
# Pipe the mail through spamassassin (replace 'spamassassin' with
'spamc' # if you use the spamc/spamd combination) # # The condition line
ensures that only messages smaller than 250 kB # (250 * 1024 = 256000
bytes) are processed by SpamAssassin. Most spam # isn't bigger than a
few k and working with big messages can bring # SpamAssassin to its
knees. # # The lock file ensures that only 1 spamassassin invocation
happens # at 1 time, to keep the load down. #
#:0fw: spamassassin.lock
:0fw: spamc.lock
* < 256000
#| spamassassin
|spamc
# Mails with a score of 15 or higher are almost certainly spam (with
0.05% # false positives according to rules/STATISTICS.txt). Let's put
them in a # different mbox. (This one is optional.)
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* almost-certainly-spam #
All mail tagged as spam (eg. with a score higher than the set threshold)
# is moved to "probably-spam".
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
probably-spam
# Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in
"From" # to be dropped. This will re-add it. :0
* ^^rom[ ]
{
LOG="*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. "
:0 fhw
| sed -e '1s/^/F/'
}
=====
Master.cf file
#
========================================================================
==
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args #
(yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100) #
========================================================================
==
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin #submission
inet n - n - - smtpd # -o smtpd_etrn_restrictions=reject #628 inet n - n
- - qmqpd pickup fifo n - n 60 1 pickup cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 qmgr #qmgr fifo n - n 300 1 oqmgr rewrite unix - -
n - - trivial-rewrite bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce defer unix - - n - 0
bounce trace unix - - n - 0 bounce verify unix - - n - 1 verify flush
unix n - n 1000? 0 flush proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap smtp unix - -
n - - smtp relay unix - - n - - smtp # -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o
smtp_connect_timeout=5 showq unix n - n - - showq error unix - - n - -
error local unix - n n - - local virtual unix - n n - - virtual lmtp
unix - - n - - lmtp anvil unix - - n - 1 anvil spamassassin unix - n n -
- pipe user=nobody argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f
${sender} ${recipient} # # Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure
to examine the manual # pages of the non-Postfix software to find out
what options it wants. # # maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README
file for details. # maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail
argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient} # # The Cyrus deliver
program has changed incompatibly, multiple times. # old-cyrus unix - n n
- - pipe flags=R user=cyrus argv=/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -m ${extension}
${user} # Cyrus 2.1.5 (Amos Gouaux) # Also specify in main.cf:
cyrus_destination_recipient_limit=1
cyrus unix - n n - - pipe
user=cyrus argv=/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension}
${user} uucp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z
-a$sender - $nexthop!rmail.postfix ($recipient) ifmail unix - n n - -
pipe flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop
($recipient) bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe flags=Fq. user=foo
argv=/usr/local/sbin/bsmtp -f $sender $nexthop $recipient ===== Thanks
Gary Manigault
Sr. Systems Analyst
765.983.8146
