Spamassassin doing a bad job after VPS reboot

[flupke]

Spamassassin was doing a good job for months, we rebooted to fixe a SB 4.1 upgrade issue and we are now overwhelmed by spams. Spamd processes are running, mail headers show trace of Spamassassin but the score is quite low.

How can this happen after a reboot, does it loose all its learning after a reboot?

Thks

Flupke

[Satoriya]

Hi flupke,

Actually, it is not unusual situation. What can done it your case:

- Make sure that SpamAssassin is running:
# /etc/init.d/psa-spamassassin

Please, do not mix it with start screept called just "spamassassin", they are different and only first one should be running.

- Make sure that maximum number of the messages that spam filter will process is defined properly:
http://kb.swsoft.com/en/945

- Also, you can try to train SpamAssassin on your own:
http://kb.swsoft.com/article_123_1217_en.html

[flupke]

Hello Satoriya,

Actually I fixed the problem: the disk was almost full, I didnt notice it. everything was running OK, SPAMD was running and pasing email but I guess the rules were not executed.

I have a question:do you know if it is possible to foce SPAMD to log messages, even when a spam is detected? There is a file in /var/log related to spam but it is always empty, even though we process thousands of emails everyday (70% being spam of course). I would be interested to keep track of what spamd does.

Regards,

Flupke

[atomicturtle]

take a look at /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog, spamassassin should log there.

[flupke]

Thks AtomicTurtle, very helpfull as usual!

Flupke