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Fixing Errors
See also FrequentlyAskedQuestions.
- Compiling & installing:
- On Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1, I get 'Makefile: 54: *** missing separator. Stop.': MakeMissingSeparator
On Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1, I get- ; or 'could not locate your pod2man program': Pod2ManRedHat
- Razor gives me errors about 'razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Insecure dependency': RazorInsecureDependency
- How can I tell what SpamAssassin is doing; or whether a SpamAssassin feature is enabled: TestingInstallation
- How can I make SpamAssassin 2.63 on Windows with ActivePerl 5.8.1 or 5.8.2: Sa263MakeWithPerl582
- When trying to build spamc with SSL, I get openssl-related errors concerning krb5.h missing, etc.: OpensslKrb
- How can I make SpamAssassin 2.63 on Windows with ActivePerl 5.8.1 or 5.8.2: Sa263MakeWithPerl582
- It doesn't run:
- I get coredumps from 'spamd': SpamdCoredumps
- When I use SpamAssassin with Mail::Audit, I get a you cannot use body() error: MailAuditBodyError
- I get warnings about tainting when I run spamassassin from /etc/procmailrc: ProcmailTaintWarning
- I get
When I use "-t", it tells me my mail is spam, even when it- '
I get '- Malformed UTF-8 character' errors on Red Hat 8/9, or using perl 5.8.0, with SA 2.43: RedHatMalformedUtf8
- I edited my local.cf file, but SpamAssassin isn't recognising the changes: LocalCfNotRead
- In what order are the SpamAssassin configuration files read?: ConfFileOrder
- On startup spamd dies with the error "IO::Socket::INET: Invalid argument": IoSocketInetInvalidArgument; or the message "Required module Storable not found!": StorableNotFound
- On startup spamd dies with the error "IO::Socket::INET: Invalid argument": IoSocketInetInvalidArgument; or the message "Required module Storable not found!": StorableNotFound
- Performance & memory: How do I disable certain checks?: DisablingRules
- SpamAssassin/spamd seem to take a very long time to scan large emails, and are bogging down my server: SpamdKillingServer
- Performance on Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1 is terrible, compared to other OSes: Utf8Performance
- I keep running out of memory every now and again: OutOfMemoryProblems
- Procmail and SpamAssassin seem not to process some of my messages when the load gets too high: NoProcessOnOverload
- I keep running out of open file descriptors, typically when using spamd: OutOfFileDescriptors
- SpamAssassin/spamd seem to take a very long time to scan large emails, and are bogging down my server: SpamdKillingServer
- Filtering and labeling:
- When I use "-t", it tells me my mail is spam, even when it's not: AlwaysSpamWithTswitch
- Mail is being filtered for users listed in 'all_spam_to': AllSpamToFiltering
- I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin and amavisd-new: AmavisdNewTrouble
- Spam to someone in 'all_spam_to' is also being delivered to other users, without filtering: AllSpamToNoFiltering
- Spam to someone in 'all_spam_to' is also being delivered to other users, without filtering: AllSpamToNoFiltering
- Performance on Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1 is terrible, compared to other OSes: Utf8Performance
- 'spamassassin' works, but mails through my MTA filter don't scan correctly: AskingAboutIntegrations
- The subject and body of a message are correctly marked as spam, but the X-Spam-Status header says No: BogusSpamStatusHeader
- A mail has enough points to be spam, but isn't marked as such: RoundingIssues
- The subject and body of a message are correctly marked as spam, but the X-Spam-Status header says No: BogusSpamStatusHeader
- I keep running out of memory every now and again: OutOfMemoryProblems
- I keep running out of open file descriptors, typically when using spamd: OutOfFileDescriptors
- Spam messages are getting through, how do I determine which tests need to have their scores adjusted to match the messages? AdjustRuleScore
- Spam messages are getting through, how do I determine which tests need to have their scores adjusted to match the messages? AdjustRuleScore
- Customizing (or failure to customize):
- I edited my local.cf file, but SpamAssassin isn't recognising the changes: LocalCfNotRead
- In what order are the SpamAssassin configuration files read?: ConfFileOrder
- I edited my local.cf file, but SpamAssassin isn't recognising the changes: LocalCfNotRead
- How do I disable certain checks?: DisablingRules
- How do I disable certain checks?: DisablingRules
- Other problems:
- I get corrupted messages, when using SpamAssassin with exim and procmail: EximProcmailCorruptMsgs
- 'spamassassin' works, but mails through my MTA filter don't scan correctly: AskingAboutIntegrations
- I get corrupted messages, when using SpamAssassin with exim and procmail: EximProcmailCorruptMsgs
- I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin and amavisd-new: AmavisdNewTrouble
- How can I tell what SpamAssassin is doing / if a SpamAssassin feature is enabled: TestingInstallation
- How can I make SpamAssassin 2.63 on Windows with ActivePerl 5.8.1 or 5.8.2: Sa263MakeWithPerl582
- I get errors about tying to a Bayes database when I copy it onto another machine, or after upgrading my Berkeley DB libraries: DbDumpAndLoad
Spam messages are getting through, how do I determine which tests need to have their scores adjusted to match the messages? AdjustRuleScore
- I'm using spamass-milter and the -notfirsthop rules like DYNABLOCK don't work properly: SpamassNotFirstHop
- When trying to build spamc with SSL, I get openssl-related errors concerning krb5.h missing, etc.: OpensslKrb
- Procmail and SpamAssassin seem not to process some of my messages when the load gets too high: NoProcessOnOverload
- On startup spamd dies with the error "IO::Socket::INET: Invalid argument": IoSocketInetInvalidArgument
- On startup spamd dies with the message "Required module Storable not found!": StorableNotFound
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