Hoary, spamassassin doesn't work fine anymore...

[Justin Mason]

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Andrea Giuliano writes:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've been using Spamassassin for a couple of years, on Fedora 1, Fedora 
> 2 and Warty, and everything was fine until I updated Warty to Hoary.
> 
> Since then, spamassassin just catches a few spam messages, all the other 
> spam (about 200 messages a day) is left untouched.
> 
> I tried to re-teach spamassassin with several thousands of old spam, but 
> almost nothing changed. I re-used my old configuration files from Warty, 
> and even from Fedora, but still nothing happened.
> 
> I found that Razor was not installed, so I installed it, still without 
> results.
> 
> I see that spamassassin nor razor are supported by ubuntu, so I come 
> with two questions.
> 
> 1) Why spamassassin doesn't work in Hoary as it did in Warty?

I suspect something has changed in terms of one of the module
dependencies; in particular I suspect the version of the DB_File or
Net::DNS perl modules has broken backwards compatibility in some
way.  Could you post the output of "spamassassin -D --lint"?

Also I would check the output of "spamassassin --lint", too, to see if it
complains about any errors in your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. (it'll be
easier to read that without the -D debug output.)

I'd be happy to help you work this out -- I'm one of the developers
of SpamAssassin, I'm using it on Hoary just fine, and seeing as Ubuntu
aren't supporting it natively I consider it a challenge ;)

- --j.
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