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also, run "spamassassin -V", "type spamassassin", and "spamassassin -D
- --lint", to verify that the correct version of SpamAssassin is being run.
"lock_method flock" is indeed spelled correctly for 3.1.0, but the
- --lint check is failing it.

- --j.

Dimitri Yioulos writes:
> On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:18 pm, Justin Mason wrote:
> > Bowie Bailey writes:
> > > From: Dimitri Yioulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > > On Thursday 22 September 2005 9:17 am, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > > > > From: Dimitri Yioulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > > > As I understand it. DCC is no longer free, under some
> > > > > > circumstances, and is therefore disabled by default in 3.1.0.  I
> > > > > > guess you have to manually enable it (although I don't know how
> > > > > > - can someone tell us how, please?).
> > > > >
> > > > > Take a look at the new v310.pre file.  Uncomment the "loadplugin"
> > > > > lines for the ones you want to use.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for tip!  I guess I shoulda done more reading.  That looks
> > > > like it should take care of the DCC and Razor problems.  But what
> > > > about lock_method flock, and bayes breakage?  I don't see anything
> > > > in that pre file realting to them.  Unless ... using that pre file
> > > > instead of init.pre makes 3.1.0 happy and solves those problems.
> > > > Your thoughts?
> > >
> > > The way I understand it, the v310.pre is designed to work WITH
> > > init.pre.  This way, whenever they add new plugins, they can just drop
> > > them in a new .pre file without having to worry about what you have
> > > changed in the old ones (i.e.  When they release v3.2.0, it may add
> > > a v320.pre file).  So, leave both .pre files there.
> >
> > Correct!
> >
> > > You could also migrate the extra v310.pre stuff into init.pre.  Anyone
> > > else know if that would cause a problem down the line?.
> >
> > No, it will not, you could indeed do that (if you want).
> >
> > > As for the other problems...
> > >
> > > "lock_method flock" works fine for me on 3.1.0.  I don't know why it
> > > wouldn't work for you.
> > >
> > > I don't have your original email anymore, so I don't remember what
> > > the bayes problem was.  The machine I am using to test SA 3.1.0 does
> > > not have a trained Bayes DB, so I probably wouldn't be able to comment
> > > on that issue anyway.
> >
> > I suspect a typo -- it might be worth posting (a) your config file
> > and (b) output from "spamassassin --lint".
> >
> > --j.
> 
> Justin,
> 
> Here's the config file (spam.assassin.prefs.conf):
> 
> # MailScanner
> # MailScanner users, please see the comments at the bottom of this file.
> # MailScanner
> #
> # SpamAssassin user preferences file.
> #
> # Format:
> #
> #   required_hits n
> #               (how many hits are required to tag a mail as spam.)
> #
> #   score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n
> #               (if this is omitted, 1 is used as a default score.
> #               Set the score to 0 to ignore the test.)
> #
> # # starts a comment, whitespace is not significant.
> #
> ###########################################################################
> 
> # JKF 12/01/2005 - known troublesome rule
> score ALL_TRUSTED 0
> 
> # JKF 21/12/2004 - relays.visi.com is dead
> score RCVD_IN_RSL 0
> 
> # JKF 1/12/2004
> # If you use the phishing fraud detector, then setting this rule to a nice
> # high score will trap mail containing links to numeric IP addresses
> # (e.g. http://1.2.3.4/ instead of the normal http://www.domain.com).
> #
> score NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP 4
> 
> # JKF 2/11/2004
> # Added this setting so that SPF checks work properly with a default setup
> # of MailScanner.
> envelope_sender_header X-MailScanner-From
> 
> ###########################################################################
> # First of all, the generally useful stuff; thresholds and the whitelist
> # of addresses which, for some reason or another, often trigger false
> # positives.
> #
> # JKF 28/04/2003
> # The following settings has been pretty much superceded by the "Advanced
> # SpamAssassin Settings" in MailScanner.conf.
> #
> # JKF 26/03/2003
> # If your root filesystem is filling up because SpamAssassin is putting
> # large databases in /.spamassassin or /root/.spamassassin, you can move
> # them using the following lines to point to their new locations.
> # The last part of the path is not a directory name, but actually the
> # start of the filenames. So with the settings below, the Bayes files will
> # be created as /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_msgcount, etc.
> #
> auto_whitelist_path        /etc/MailScanner/bayes/auto-whitelist
> auto_whitelist_file_mode   0600
> bayes_path                 /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes
> bayes_file_mode            0777
> 
> # MailScanner: When using the scheduled Bayes expiry feature, you probably
> # MailScanner: want to turn off auto-expiry as it will rarely complete before
> # MailScanner: it is killed for taking too long. You will just end up with
> # MailScanner: big bayes_toks.new files wasting space.
> # bayes_auto_expire 0
> 
> # Whitelist and blacklist addresses are *not* patterns; they're just normal
> # strings.  one exception is that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is allowed.  They 
> should be in
> # lower-case.  You can either add multiple addrs on one line,
> # whitespace-separated, or you can use multiple lines.
> #
> # Monty Solomon: he posts from an ISP that has often been the source of spam
> # (no fault of his own ;), and sometimes uses Bcc: when mailing.
> #
> #whitelist_from         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> # Add your blacklist entries in the same format...
> #
> # blacklist_from        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> # Mail using languages used in these country codes will not be marked
> # as being possibly spam in a foreign language.
> #
>                                                       
> # By default, SpamAssassin will run RBL checks.  If your ISP already
> # does this, set this to 1.
> #
> # skip_rbl_checks 1
> 
> ###########################################################################
> # Add your own customised scores for some tests below.  The default scores are
> # read from the installed "spamassassin.cf" file, but you can override them
> # here.  To see the list of tests and their default scores, go to
> # http://spamassassin.taint.org/tests.html .
> 
> # MailScanner: Comment out the next line to enable DCC checking if you
> #              have dcc installed (optional part of SpamAssassin)
> # JKF Commented out as it no longer generates maillog warnings
> #score DCC_CHECK 0.0
> #dcc_path /usr/bin/dccproc
> #dcc_home /etc/dcc
> 
> #
> # Added for MailScanner 23/5/2003
> # The timeouts for blacklists and Razor are rather generous in the default
> # state that SpamAssassin is shipped. Reducing these stops a lot of timeouts
> # from removing SpamAssassin scores altogether.
> #
> 
> rbl_timeout 20
> razor_timeout 10
> pyzor_timeout 10
> 
> #
> # Added for MailScanner 14/6/2002
> # If you specify these scores, SpamAssassin will do RBL checks as well as
> # MailScanner, which just wastes CPU power and network bandwidth. Either
> # do them here by uncommenting the rules below (if you have paid for them)
> # or else uncomment the "skip_rbl_checks" line above and let MailScanner
> # do the checks instead.
> #
> #score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET    4
> # These next 3 will cost you money, see mailscanner.conf.
> #score RCVD_IN_RBL               10
> #score RCVD_IN_RSS               1
> #score RCVD_IN_DUL               1
> 
> # For spam and notspam bins
> bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner
> bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-SpamCheck
> bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-SpamScore
> bayes_ignore_header X-MailScanner-Information
> 
> # By default, the Bayesian engine is used. This is a real CPU hog and uses
> # a lot of system resources to work.
> # On a small overloaded system, you might need to disable it.
> use_bayes 1
> 
> # Most people don't use NFS-shared Bayes databases
> # so this is added for SpamAssassin 3
> lock_method flock
> 
> Output from spammassasin --lint (don't have with -D switch):
> 
> Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: 
> envelope_sender_header X-MailScanner-From
> Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: 
> dcc_home /etc/dcc
> Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: lock_method 
> flock
> 
> Dimitri
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