spamassassin doesn't seem to be working anymore

[Donkey Hottie]

15.01.2013 22:05, Daevid Vincent kirjoitti:
> I have a home server that has been working brilliantly for a few years. And
> as the old saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I just don't have
> the time (or patience) to dick around with re-installing the latest Ubuntu
> just to get it to parity with what I already have working basically. 
> 
> Anyways, I have noticed over the past year let's say that I get a lot more
> spam in my inbox than I did when this first came out. Did something change
> with spamassassin and it's not updating the rules or whatever for this
> version of Ubuntu anymore? I would think that the rules should be
> 'universal' no?
> 
> # lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
> Release:        8.10
> Codename:       intrepid
> 
> # spamassassin --version
> SpamAssassin version 3.2.5
>   running on Perl version 5.10.0
> 
> It is running.
> 
> # ps aux | grep spam
> 84:root      5733  0.0  0.6  29436 26864 ?        Ss   Jan10   0:31
> /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -d
> --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
> 136:root      8447  0.1  0.8  39580 36904 ?        S    06:20   0:33 spamd
> child
> 139:root     13349  0.0  0.8  35856 33160 ?        S    08:28   0:02 spamd
> child
> 158:postfix  22214  0.0  0.0   7944  3564 ?        S    11:55   0:00 smtpd
> -n smtp -t inet -u -c -o stress  -o content_filter spamassassin
> 160:postfix  22218  0.0  0.0   5764  1752 ?        S    11:55   0:00 pipe -n
> spamassassin -t unix user=spamassassin argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
> 163:root     22324  0.0  0.0   3236   828 pts/0    R+   11:56   0:00 grep -i
> -n --color=auto spam
> 
> If I run "sa-update" it doesn't give any error (or message for that matter)
> 
> # /usr/bin/spamassassin --lint
> Returns to the next prompt without error or message too.
> 
> I do have this crontab and it does run without error:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  904 2008-11-08 02:13 /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin
> 
> 
> 

You should really upgrade at least SpamAssasin. 3.2.5 is ancient, 3.3.2
is now current and supported.


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