Hi, Does it have something to do with /etc/mail/virtusertable???
CosmicPerl wrote: > > Hi, > Ok, I've updated my procmailrc file to have:- > MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail > This has fixed procmail putting spam emails in probably-spam and > almost-certainly-spam mail boxes (I also created each of those as a user, > but don't think it was that which made the real difference). > > Now the confusing thing is that even though both these mail boxes are > filling up with the spam emails, the mails are still being delivered to > the users mail boxes. Looking at my procmail log that's recording with the > config:- > VERBOSE=yes > LOGABSTRACT=all > LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log > > Also I've noticed that all emails procmail logs through that are not > directed to probably-spam or almost-certainly-spam are apparently put in > /var/mail/root???? > procmail: Opening "/var/mail/root" > procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock > procmail: Unlocking "/var/mail/root.lock" > procmail: Notified comsat: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/mail/root" > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 29 01:10:57 2006 > Subject: Postmaster notify: see transcript for details > Folder: /var/mail/root > > Am I to take it that some other program is at work taking emails that have > been through procmail then forwarding to the mail boxes?? They must be > going to procmail first to have the SPAMASSASSIN [SPAM] header tags. > > I'm on the last hurdle. If someone could help me with this I'd be VERY > appreciative. > > > > > CosmicPerl wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I changed it to 2 days. I've also setup a script that checks for double >> bounce emails in the queue and deletes them automatically. The specific >> EX_TEMPFAIL i was getting was due to quota issues on some accounts. Seems >> that if the master user for a domain is over quota then any >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] emails get stuck in the queue rather than >> rejected. I'm going to make another script that checks for these emails >> in the queue and notifys me automatically. >> >> Now everything seems to be running smoothly. I've had the [SPAM] added to >> subjects for over a week now, I'm happy that it's filtering spam and not >> legit mail. Now I'm having trouble getting it to delete mails marked as >> spam rather than just add the [SPAM] to the subject. >> >> I've added the lines:- >> :0: >> * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* >> almost-certainly-spam >> >> :0: >> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes >> probably-spam >> >> To my procmailrc, files containing emails called almost-certainly-spam >> and probably-spam have appeared in /var/spool/mqueue/, I thought they >> would have gone in /var/spool/mail????? >> >> Either way I'm still getting emails coming through with [SPAM] in the >> subject despite the lines I've added. Not sure what to do now? Please >> help. >> >> >> >> Sietse van Zanen wrote: >>> >>> These mails stay there for 5 days. At least if you set up sendmail >>> according to RFC's. >>> >>> that's the whole idea of SMTP store and forward. If address is >>> unavailable, keep trying for a while before giving up. You can set the >>> grace time to any period you like btw. >>> >>> -Sietse >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: CosmicPerl >>> Sent: Tue 21-Nov-06 16:48 >>> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: Problems running Spam Assassin >>> >>> >>> Hi All, >>> Ok, I've figured that having "define(`confSEPARATE_PROC', `True')" in >>> my >>> SendMail config was what was causing the flushing of the mail queue to >>> create such a huge server load as it was spawning a new sendmail, >>> procmail, >>> and spamassassin child for each message in the mqueue. So I've disabled >>> this, but I still cannot figure out why mail aimed at non existant uses >>> is >>> still staying in the message queue and not being rejected?? Any help >>> would >>> be very much appreciated. >>> >>> >>> >>> CosmicPerl wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> It appears that as I was accepted to the mailing list after making my >>>> first post, my post did not hit the list. Here is my original full post >>>> below:- >>>> >>>> >>>> CosmicPerl wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I installed the latest SpamAssassin on my server. At first all my >>>>> tests >>>>> looked good, apart from load. So I setup spamc and spamd and >>>>> everything >>>>> seemed great, for a short while at least. >>>>> >>>>> A day later my mqueue had about 1500 messages in it, most with the >>>>> error >>>>> "local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL". This seems >>>>> to >>>>> be coming up if the mailbox is full or the email is to an address that >>>>> doesn't exist. >>>>> >>>>> It seemed that about every hour or so Sendmail was trying to flush out >>>>> these messages, causing 1000's of processes to be started and making >>>>> the >>>>> server freeze up. Despite my Sendmail config having >>>>> define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `12')dnl >>>>> >>>>> In my procmailrc file I have:- >>>>> DROPPRIVS=yes >>>>> :0fw: spamassassin.lock >>>>> * < 256000 >>>>> | spamc >>>>> >>>>> The SpamAssassin daemon was started with >>>>> /usr/bin/spamd -d -u nobody >>>>> >>>>> At some point all mail stopped coming in. When I looked at the maillog >>>>> file it had lots of lines like:- >>>>> mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied >>>>> Which I guess was causing the problem. This wasn't a problem before so >>>>> I'm not sure why it happened. Any clues? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Basically I need to set things up so that when sendmail trys to flush >>>>> I >>>>> don't get my server falling over. >>>>> Emails that are sent to addresses that don't exist that are currently >>>>> getting the error "local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with >>>>> EX_TEMPFAIL" be delete from the queue automatically. >>>>> Ideally I'd like to give each different virtual server I have it's own >>>>> possibly spam folder. I'm using Webmin and have a 100 or so Virtual >>>>> servers so if anyone knows a good automated way of doing this that >>>>> would >>>>> be great. Either way I can't have things go down again otherwise I'll >>>>> loose all my clients! >>>>> >>>>> And SpamAssassin working again. At first it was just marking emails >>>>> with >>>>> [spam] in the subject. Then Yesterday It then also started changing >>>>> the >>>>> message to an attachment and having "Spam detection software, running >>>>> on >>>>> the system "ns.cosmicsitehosting.com", has identified this incoming >>>>> email >>>>> as possible spam..." in the message text. I've no idea what was >>>>> changed >>>>> so that this started happening. I didn't think I changed anything. >>>>> Then >>>>> last night it stopped sending any emails. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Please help! >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>> >>>>> Oh by the way my local.cf file contains >>>>> required_hits 10 >>>>> rewrite_header Subject [SPAM] >>>>> report_safe 1 >>>>> use_bayes 1 >>>>> skip_rbl_checks 1 >>>>> use_pyzor 1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone help with this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Problems-running-Spam-Assassin-tf2664618.html#a7473573 >>> Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-running-Spam-Assassin-tf2664618.html#a7592299 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
