Hi Mark, > The message 'Could not connect to database' does not come directly > neither from amavisd nor from SpamAssassin. It seems to occur during > loading ('require') or perl modules needed by SpamAssassin, so attention > should be directed there. I couldn't find the message in question > by searching through all .pm modules in the library, so it is either > spliced together from components, or more likely, coming from one > of the underlying libraries, perhaps your PAM login authentication.
wow, thanks a lot! Indeed, you seem to be right. The error seems to be caused from entires in /etc/nsswitch.conf that FusionForge set up. After removal of FF, it all worked fine again. I guess that amavisd-new and/or SA tried to get user data from the added database, and did not succeed. Thanks for your fast help! Florian