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Re: Spamassassin and Exim4



On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> 
> > SA should log to /var/log/mail.info, and that's a good place to look
> > for info...
> 
> I have two spamd entries in mail.info:
> 
> Sep 24 14:51:09 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: connection from localhost 
> [127.0.0.1] at port 43270
> Sep 24 14:51:11 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: bad protocol: header error: 
> at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1671, <GEN4> line 1.
> Sep 24 14:51:12 etch spamd[10150]: prefork: child states: II
> 
> and
> 
> Sep 24 15:26:20 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: connection from localhost 
> [127.0.0.1] at port 60337
> Sep 24 15:26:26 etch spamd[10151]: spamd: bad protocol: header error: ÿôÿý_ 
> at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1671, <GEN5> line 1.
> Sep 24 15:26:26 etch spamd[10150]: prefork: child states: II
> 
> If I'm interpreting this correctly, this was a couple of malformed messages 
> which caused spamd to choke.  Apparently, then, spamd is being called and 
> passed the messages for examination.

huh. I get copious output from spamd with every mail that hits it. How
are you starting spamd? 

ps aux | grep spamd | grep -v grep

...

> 
> I had that backwards.  I thought nobody:true meant to only perform the actions 
> below when the check WAS true.  So the colon signifies an OR, not an IF.

essentially.

...
> 
> I've reconfigured the file with your recommendations and restarted exim.  I'm 
> still not getting any headers in any email, including obvious spam.  Not sure 
> what's going on.  Do you know of any way to verify that ACLs are actually 
> running?

I really don't know other than to see them show up in the logs
etc. Can you provide the pertinent part of exim4.conf? the entire ACL
section would be good.

A

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