[Mailman-Users] Mailman/SpamAssassin holding for moderation instead of discarding spam

[Fletcher Cocquyt]

Yes, I had upgraded spamassassin, but not the spamd.py
After installing the latest version and bouncing its logging no more errors,
and the vette log has the spamassassin scores - looks good - thanks!
Fletcher


On 3/18/08 5:23 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Fletcher Cocquyt wrote:
>> Hi, forgive me for replying directly ­ I¹m on the digest version of the list
>> and saw your reply on the web archive
>> 
>> [Bounced to list - MS]
>> 
>> "Post by non-member to a members-only list" is the reason
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> I also see this in the mailman error log:
>> Mar 18 15:45:02 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:45:15 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:45:30 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:45:38 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:45:46 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:46:01 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:46:26 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:46:38 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:46:41 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:46:58 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:47:12 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:47:18 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> Mar 18 15:47:33 2008 (18680) spamd: not enough words in response header
>> 
>> Which is from spamd.py:
>> 
>> god at irt-smtp-02:logs 4:19pm 133 # egrep "not enough"
>> ./Mailman/Handlers/*.py
>> ./Mailman/Handlers/spamd.py:            raise error('not enough words in
>> response header')
>> 
>> 
>> But I'm not sure if that is relevant
> 
> It's relevant. It means that your spamd.py module is not compatible with
> the spamd daemon on your system.
> 
> I don't know what spamd.py you're using, but the one from
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=534577&group_id=103&
> atid=300103> 
> is looking for a header (first line) in the response from spamd that
> contains at least 3 whitespace delimited words. If it doesn't get at
> least 3 words in the first line of the response, it throws the "not
> enough words in response header" exception which results in
> SpamAssassin.py assigning a score of -1.