Any ideas on this, anyone? Thanks, Andy
Andy Balaam wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I think I've got everything set up correctly for postfix + spamassassin
> spam filtering, but I'm not getting any BAYES_ tags in the emails I am
> receiving. I'd appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks in advance.
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Dapper.
>
> I've set up postfix to call spamassassin:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ cat /etc/postfix/master.cf
> <snip>
> smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
> -o content_filter=spamassassin
> <snip>
> spamassassin unix - n n - - pipe
> user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
>
> and I've enabled bayes in spamassassin:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ cat /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
> <snip>
> use_bayes 1
> use_bayes_rules 1
> bayes_file_mode 0770
> bayes_path /etc/spamassassin/bayes
> <snip>
>
> spamd is running as the user spamd:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ ps -ef | grep spam
> root 4891 1 0 16:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/spamd
> --create-prefs --max-children 5 --username spamd --helper-home-dir
> /var/lib/spamassassin/ -s /var/lib/spamassassin/spamd.log -d
> --pidfile=/var/lib/spamassassin/spamd.pid
> spamd 4944 4891 0 16:29 ? 00:00:00 spamd child
> spamd 4945 4891 0 16:29 ? 00:00:00 spamd child
> andy 6246 5896 0 16:38 pts/0 00:00:00 grep spam
>
> spamd is in the spam-reporters group:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ sudo -u spamd -s -H
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ groups
> spamd spam-reporters
>
> The spam-reporters group has permissions on the bayes files:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ ls -ld /etc/spamassassin/
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root spam-reporters 4096 2007-01-02 12:12 /etc/spamassassin/
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ ls -l /etc/spamassassin/
> total 12276
> -rw-rw---- 1 root spam-reporters 1344 2007-01-03 16:42 bayes_journal
> -rw-rw---- 1 root spam-reporters 10522624 2007-01-01 19:39 bayes_seen
> -rw-rw---- 1 root spam-reporters 4571136 2007-01-02 12:12 bayes_toks
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 948 2006-08-30 01:44 init.pre
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 2007-01-02 12:10 local.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1208 2006-12-12 14:20 local.cf.orig
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2179 2006-08-30 01:44 v310.pre
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 806 2006-08-30 01:44 v312.pre
>
> spamassassin seems to think it's working - lint output looks like this
> (running as user spamd):
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ sudo -u spamd -s -H
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | grep bayes
> [6477] dbg: config: read file /usr/share/spamassassin/23_bayes.cf
> [6477] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /etc/spamassassin/bayes_toks
> [6477] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /etc/spamassassin/bayes_seen
> [6477] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3
> [6477] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 0
> [6477] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 0
> [6477] dbg: bayes: corpus size: nspam = 44517, nham = 41607
> [6477] dbg: bayes: score = 0.705470924420595
> [6477] dbg: bayes: DB expiry: tokens in DB: 137204, Expiry max size:
> 150000, Oldest atime: 1166357473, Newest atime: 1167739848, Last expire:
> 1167739955, Current time: 1167842527
> [6477] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 0
> [6477] dbg: bayes: untie-ing
> [6477] dbg: bayes: untie-ing db_toks
> [6477] dbg: bayes: untie-ing db_seen
>
> and running it on a test message seems to work (still running as user
> spamd):
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ sudo -u spamd -s -H
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy$ cd Desktop/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/andy/Desktop$ spamassassin -t test.txt
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on 10.0.1.2
> X-Spam-Level:
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40,NO_REAL_NAME,
> NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.1.3
>
> and yet, when I receive real email, there are no BAYES_ tags in any of
> the message headers.
>
> Here is an excerpt from an email I sent to myself (containing the word
> viagra):
>
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on 10.0.1.2
> X-Spam-Level: *
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,DRUGS_ERECTILE,
> SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.1.3
>
> And here from an email that scored 0:
>
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on 10.0.1.2
> X-Spam-Level:
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.0 tests=none autolearn=failed
>
> A potentially important data point is that autolearn always seems to be
> "failed" when it is not "no".
>
> If anyone has any ideas what is going on, please let me know. Also, if
> you need any more information, I'd be glad to provide it.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Andy
>
