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Hi,
I've read (and understood, I think )
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... amAssassin
and it was good but I just can't get SpamAssasin to work

1. Looking in my mail.err log I'm told that

Milter (spamassassin): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by /var/run/spamass.sock

and my mailbox is flooded with spam.

2. Exactly what should the special folders be called? "Spam", "Non-Spam", "Possible Spam" am I using, but the document talks about "Ham" and "Junk e-mail" folders aswell, Reading the perl-scripts for feeding the filters also makes me confused

3. How do I set up the 2 rules? What conditions should be met? Currently I have set it to "Message header" contains "SPAM". But how do I set up a rule for filtering mail not marked as spam with a score above 3?

Thanks !!!
/Kjell

Did you see the line in the installation Wiki (right near the top) where that same error occurred and they just changed the .sock file that they were using? Have you tried that? If you do/have it is my understanding that (if you are using spamassassin as a milter with sendmail) that your entry for spamassassin in sendmail.mc needs to point to the same .sock file. And then of course rebuild your sendmail.cf file and restart sendmail.

RSisco wrote:Did you see the line in the installation Wiki (right near the top) where that same error occurred and they just changed the .sock file that they were using? Have you tried that?

Sorry for not trying all in the Wiki

I changed the line and the messages in mail.err logfile changed to

Better, but still not good (IMHO)
And spam still arrives in my inbox

Any ideas for that?

TIA
/Kjell

Sounds like permissions. chmod that file to 755 and try again. It should also be owned by the spamass-milter user (sa-milt in my case).

RSisco wrote:Sounds like permissions. chmod that file to 755 and try again. It should also be owned by the spamass-milter user (sa-milt in my case).

Hmmm, strange.
There is no file called "/var/run/spamass-milter.sock"

Confused
/Kjell

Mine is under /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock

Check in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and see where it is looking for the .sock file

Hi,
I'm using Suse so for me it's linux.mc but that doesn't matter

Looking there it says /var/run/spamass-milter.sock but the file is missing!
There is a file called /var/run/spamass.sock but if I have that in the mc-file it's connection refused, just as before

TIA!
/Kjell

I'm kinda unfamiliar with this area of linux, but aren't the .sock files created when the server is ran? Are spamd and the spamass-milter running? Try:



If not (and even if they are), try restarting them:



Since you are using Suse, your mileage may vary.

Hi,
there's 3 instances of spamd running but none of spamass-milter.


is equal to I guess ?

But there are no script for


Strange...
/Kjell

Now's the time for me to bow out and let someone else help.

RSisco wrote:Now's the time for me to bow out and let someone else help.

Ok,
thanks a lot!

Do you have any clues re the two other issues I had?

/Kjell

Do you have any clues re the two other issues I had?

Nope.

We reject mail from unresolvable domains and I have Spamassassin set to Auto Learn. So we have very few spam email actually get through the filter. So I haven't bothered setting up folders to train it on.

Hi again!
Doing some testing and fiddling I've now solved item#2 and #3.
#2, The folders should be called as they do in the script (of course, when thinking over it twice in retrospective )
#3. Spam is marked as

X-Spam-Status: Yes

,
Possible Spam is marked as

X-Spam-Status: No

If the score is above 3 there are three * after the X-Spam-Level header

X-Spam-Level: **:

BUT!
How do I start Spamass-milter at startup?
I'm told that

spamass-milter: unknown service

I have to manually remove spamass-milter.sock in /var/run and then do

I'd love to have it started at startup!
Anyone?
/Kjell

I've read (and understood, I think )
http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... amAssassin
and it was good but I just can't get SpamAssasin to work

1. Looking in my mail.err log I'm told that

Milter (spamassassin): error connecting to filter: Connection refused by /var/run/spamass.sock

and my mailbox is flooded with spam.

2. Exactly what should the special folders be called? "Spam", "Non-Spam", "Possible Spam" am I using, but the document talks about "Ham" and "Junk e-mail" folders aswell, Reading the perl-scripts for feeding the filters also makes me confused

3. How do I set up the 2 rules? What conditions should be met? Currently I have set it to "Message header" contains "SPAM". But how do I set up a rule for filtering mail not marked as spam with a score above 3?

Thanks !!!
/Kjell