Spamassassin not working after upgrade

nycsurf · 02-11-2009, 03:22 PM

Hello,

I recently upgraded to spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el5 using up2date and spamassassin no longer seems to be filtering messages. Spamassassin correctly identifies the sample spam message when I do

spamassassin -D < /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-3.2.5/sample-spam.txt

from the command line, but it does not tag the GTUBE email when I send it to myself from an external email account. It doesn't look like sendmail/procmail is sending the mail through spamassassin, although it's not clear to me why not. I didn't change anything in my config files and the upgrade notes for spamassassin did not indicate that anything should be changed.

I've googled extensively to see if anyone else is having this problem and what possible solutions might be, but nothing that I've tried (changing config files, restarting spamd, etc.) has worked.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any suggestions for solutions would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting killed w/ spam!

Thanks,
Greg

repo · 02-11-2009, 03:26 PM

in procmail set verbose on and add a logfile.
Then look in the logfile for any pointers,
or look in
/var/log/mail.log

nycsurf · 02-12-2009, 11:49 AM

Thanks for the suggestion. I did this and here is the relevant part of the log file for a sample email:

procmail: Assigning "DROPPRIVS=yes"
procmail: Assuming identity of the recipient, VERBOSE=off
procmail: Assigning "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
procmail: Assigning "SHELL=/bin/sh"
procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/spamassassin: Permission denied
procmail: Program failure (126) of "/usr/bin/spamassassin"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded

I'm still stumped, however. The permissions for spamassassin seem to be correct:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27021 Sep 14 18:29 /usr/bin/spamassassin

I can run it from the command line, so I'm not sure why I'm still getting "permission denied." Do I need to change the ownership of spamassassin?

I could only find one relevant posting with a similar error (located here
http://use.perl.org/~samtregar/journal/29278), but that doesn't sound like my problem.

repo · 02-12-2009, 12:00 PM

here I use spamc
Here my procmailrc

Code:

SUBJ_=`formail -xSubject: \
       | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

:0 fw
   | /usr/bin/spamc

:0
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
{
        :0 fhw
        | formail -A "X-SPAM-INFO: BLOCKED BY SPAMASSASSIN"
        :0 fhw
        | formail -A "X-SPAM-INFO: Mail is sent to SPAMCOP http://www.spamcop.net"
        :0 fhw
        | formail -I"Subject: [SPAM] ${SUBJ_}"
        LOG="SPAMASSASSIN "
        :0 cw
        | /usr/local/bin/report.pl
        :0 cw
        | /usr/bin/spamassassin -r
        :0
        ${DEFAULT}
}

repo@cannabis:~$ spamassassin -V
SpamAssassin version 3.2.5
running on Perl version 5.10.0

nycsurf · 02-12-2009, 01:07 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I edited my .procmailrc to use spamc, but I'm getting the same message--i.e., permission denied for running spamc.