Topic: SpamAssassin not working

[Rick Jones]

I've installed the e-smith configured version of SA from contribs onto SME 5.5, enabled everything in the admin panel, but it appears to have no effect.

I haven't added any explicit BW list entries as my main problem is random-address garbage spam. But I would have expected some intervention based on the heuristics.

Am I likely to be missing anything obvious, or where's the best place to start debugging? This is my first experience with SA, so any tips would be welcome.

TIA

Rick Jones

[Darrell May]

Check to see if SA is running:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin status

Check your e-mail message headers for tags similar to these:

X-Spam-Status: ...
X-Spam-Level: ...
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)

If you do not see these headings then SA is not working.  Check your user procmail set up and recipes.

Darrell

[Rick Jones]

Ah - thanks. I hadn't quite twigged to the dependency of SA on procmail, and hence user-manager in order to enable it.

Having installed UM and turned on procmail I'm getting the X-Spam-* headers, so it's trying. Now just need time to see if it sorts the wheat from the chaff

One point still confuses me though - the SA config panel has an option to allow per-user SA settings via user-manager. But I don't see a user panel for SA that can be turned on in the user-panel manager (if that makes sense!). What am I missing here?

Cheers
Rick Jones

[Ray Mitchell]

I believe that feature is not functional in the current e-smith implementation of SA by G Zartmann

Regs
Ray