[Mimedefang] question

Dan Tulovsky dant at wetsnow.com
Sun Sep 29 20:14:01 EDT 2002


Well, I figured out my problem.  Mandrake with paranoid security.  It
installed half of the perl modules without world readable permissions.  And
since sendmail doesn't run as root anymore.. well, it all works now.  Thank
you for help.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Kirkland" <jpk at bl.org>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] question


> Can you confirm that spamassassin works if you run it manually?
>
> Go to the spamassassin source directory and run:
>
> spamassassin < sample-spam.txt
>
> -John
>
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Dan Tulovsky wrote:
>
> > This is the output of the command.  It shows SpamAssassin installed and
the
> > SpamAssassin sub gets executed... today about 7 or 8 spams got through,
and
> > none of them triggered any hits.
> >
> > thank you
> > dan
> >
> > {root at puppy}-{/var/log} # mimedefang.pl -features
[28
> > Sep 11:13am]
> > MIMEDefang version 2.21
> >
> > File::Scan                    : yes
> > HTML::Parser                  : yes
> > Path:CONFDIR                  : yes (/etc/mail)
> > Path:QUARANTINEDIR            : yes (/var/spool/MIMEDefang)
> > Path:SENDMAIL                 : yes (/usr/sbin/sendmail)
> > Path:SPOOLDIR                 : yes (/var/spool/MIMEDefang)
> > SpamAssassin                  : yes
> > Virus:FileScan                : yes
> > Virus:OpenAV                  : yes
> > HTMLCleaner                   : no
> > Virus:AVP                     : no
> > Virus:CLAMAV                  : no
> > Virus:FPROT                   : no
> > Virus:FSAV                    : no
> > Virus:HBEDV                   : no
> > Virus:NAI                     : no
> > Virus:NVCC                    : no
> > Virus:RAV                     : no
> > Virus:SOPHIE                  : no
> > Virus:SOPHOS                  : no
> > Virus:TREND                   : no
> >
> > IO::Socket                    : Version 1.26
> > MIME::Tools                   : Version 5.411
> > MIME::Words                   : Version 5.404
> > Digest::SHA1                  : Version 2.00
> > Mail::SpamAssassin            : Version 2.41
> > Anomy::HTMLCleaner            : missing
> > File::Scan                    : Version 0.36
> > HTML::Parser                  : Version 3.26
> >
> > >What's the output of the following command?
> > >
> > >mimedefang.pl -features
> > >
> > >-John
> > >
> > >On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Dan Tulovsky wrote:
> > >----------------------------
> >  Hi.
> > >
> > > I am new to mimedefang and my interest is to use it with SpamAssassin.
I
> > > installed everything, all the little pieces, but something is broken
> > > somewhere.
> > >
> > > All my mail goes through.  I get this header appended:
> > >
> > > X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.21 (www . roaringpenguin . com /
mimedefang)
> > >
> > > I am using the stock config of mimedefang, haven't changed anything.
It
> > > blocks attachments just fine.
> > >
> > > The Spam Assassin piece doesn't seem to be working.  The hits variable
is
> > > always 0.  I changed the code so that it would add a header in even if
> > hits
> > > < req, and it added the header in (so that code is executing), but the
> > hits
> > > is always 0.  As I understand, this gets incremented by various things
> > spam
> > > assassin scans.  No type of message I send through generates anything
but
> > 0.
> > >
> > > Running on Mandrake Linux.  Sendmail 8.12.3.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help with where I should be looking?
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > Dan
> >
> >
> >
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