OliverScott
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I know this has been mentioned elsewhere in these forums (as part of existing threads) but I thought I would start a seperate thread about it:
If you upgrade to SA 3.2.0 and have any custom rules from rulesemporium.com (anything with SARE in the filename) installed to improve your detection rate, then you may have problems!
Basically everything works apart from the fact that you will get a LOT of errors logged in your MAILLOG file. I personally was getting 1-2Gb of log file building up per day.
From what I gather this is to do with the version of PERL that you are running. If you are on version 5.8.8 then you should be OK, but earlier versions need to be upgraded.
From what I gather upgrading PERL is a fairly scary business so it may be simpler to just remove the SARE rules and clear down the logfile if you have this problem...
For the linux novice (like me) here are some of the commands you need to sort this:
Someone please correct me if I am recommending somthing dangerous!
Go to the folder with the SARE rules (possibly cd /etc/mail/spamassassin) and delete the SARE rules:
rm *_SARE_*
Restart SpamAssassin so these rules are no longer included/used:
killall spamd
/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5
Clear the massive maillog file (probably a good idea?):
cd /var/logs
Check the size of the maillog file:
ls -h -l
Empty the file (pipe nothing into the file):
> maillog
Hope this is of some use to someone else...
If you upgrade to SA 3.2.0 and have any custom rules from rulesemporium.com (anything with SARE in the filename) installed to improve your detection rate, then you may have problems!
Basically everything works apart from the fact that you will get a LOT of errors logged in your MAILLOG file. I personally was getting 1-2Gb of log file building up per day.
From what I gather this is to do with the version of PERL that you are running. If you are on version 5.8.8 then you should be OK, but earlier versions need to be upgraded.
From what I gather upgrading PERL is a fairly scary business so it may be simpler to just remove the SARE rules and clear down the logfile if you have this problem...
For the linux novice (like me) here are some of the commands you need to sort this:
Someone please correct me if I am recommending somthing dangerous!
Go to the folder with the SARE rules (possibly cd /etc/mail/spamassassin) and delete the SARE rules:
rm *_SARE_*
Restart SpamAssassin so these rules are no longer included/used:
killall spamd
/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 5
Clear the massive maillog file (probably a good idea?):
cd /var/logs
Check the size of the maillog file:
ls -h -l
Empty the file (pipe nothing into the file):
> maillog
Hope this is of some use to someone else...