Re: Spamassasin on Woody - standard install using spamc fails??

["Bojan Baros" <bojan@blis.dyndns.org>]

Peter Sebastian Masny said:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a working woody mailserver with postfix and procmail
>
> I wanted to try spamassassin tagging and did the following:
>
> apt-get install spamassassin librazor-perl
> enable spamd in /etc/default/spamassassin
> /etc/init.d/spamassasin restart
>
> then in my user .procmailrc I added
>
> :0fw
> |/usr/bin/spamc
>
>
> However, spamc gets stuck.  The promail log reads:
>
>  > procmail: [22511] Mon Apr 12 13:06:56 2004
>  > procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/spamc"
>
> and no more.  About 15 minutes later the following is added to the
> procmail log
>
>  > [22511] Mon Apr 12 13:22:56 2004
>  > procmail: Timeout, terminating "/usr/bin/spamc"
>  > procmail: [22511] Mon Apr 12 13:22:56 2004
>  > procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>
> after which procmail proceeds normally
>
> The only thing in the syslog is:
>
>> Apr 12 13:29:23 fsh5 spamd[22065]: server killed by SIGTERM,
>> shutting down
>> Apr 12 13:29:23 fsh5 spamd[22514]: server killed by SIGTERM,
>> shutting down
>> Apr 12 13:29:40 fsh5 spamd[22664]: server started on port 783
>
> Anyone have an idea what is going on?
>
> Peter
>

Hello Peter.

If you want to add spamassassin to all users I suggest you do this in
/etc/procmailrc:

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc -f -u $1


Hope it helps.

Bojan