Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-13 Thread Evan Booyens
Glad you found the issue. Your trouble shooting approach was spot on with the step by step tweaking and checks. Thanks for keeping us updated :) Evan On 2019/02/13 02:00, Ken Wright wrote: Success! I got so frustrated I reformatted the hard drive and started over.  This time, after

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-12 Thread Ken Wright
Success! I got so frustrated I reformatted the hard drive and started over.  This time, after installing SA and before any tweaking, I tried to start it, and it worked.  So I started checking after every tweak, so I could find where the problem lay.  Turns out the Options line in

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-12 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/12/19 9:53 AM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 12 Feb 2019, at 1:14, Ken Wright wrote: > >> On 2/11/19 11:42 PM, Bill Cole wrote: >>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 21:40, Ken Wright wrote: >>> On 2/11/19 9:33 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 11 Feb 2019, at 20:24, Ken Wright wrote: > >> it does say

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 12 Feb 2019, at 1:14, Ken Wright wrote: On 2/11/19 11:42 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 11 Feb 2019, at 21:40, Ken Wright wrote: On 2/11/19 9:33 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 11 Feb 2019, at 20:24, Ken Wright wrote: it does say it's loading the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check module This is

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-12 Thread Evan Booyens
It seems to be a legacy setting in Ubuntu for backwards compatibility... On 2019/02/12 15:45, RW wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:33:09 +0200 Evan Booyens wrote: Also check that the actual spamassassin config directory is /etc/spamassassin and that there is a symlink at /etc/mail/spamassassin ->

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-12 Thread RW
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:33:09 +0200 Evan Booyens wrote: > Also check that the actual spamassassin config directory is > /etc/spamassassin and that there is a symlink > at /etc/mail/spamassassin -> /etc/spamassassin > > If not, create it with ln -s /etc/spamassassin /etc/mail/spamassassin

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/12/19 1:56 AM, Evan Booyens wrote: > > Hi Ken > > My only other fix would be to specify the config path in > /etc/default/spamassassin at the OPTIONS="" section - add in > "--configpath=/etc/spamassassin " at the start of the configs. > > Hope it helps. > I checked, and it's already there. 

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Evan Booyens
Hi Ken My only other fix would be to specify the config path in /etc/default/spamassassin at the OPTIONS="" section - add in "--configpath=/etc/spamassassin " at the start of the configs. Hope it helps. On 2019/02/12 08:38, Ken Wright wrote: On 2/12/19 1:33 AM, Evan Booyens wrote: Also

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/12/19 1:33 AM, Evan Booyens wrote: > > Also check that the actual spamassassin config directory is > /etc/spamassassin and that there is a symlink at > /etc/mail/spamassassin -> /etc/spamassassin > > If not, create it with ln -s /etc/spamassassin /etc/mail/spamassassin > Just checked.  The

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Evan Booyens
Also check that the actual spamassassin config directory is /etc/spamassassin and that there is a symlink at /etc/mail/spamassassin -> /etc/spamassassin If not, create it with ln -s /etc/spamassassin /etc/mail/spamassassin On 2019/02/12 08:14, Ken Wright wrote: On 2/11/19 11:42 PM, Bill

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/11/19 11:42 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 11 Feb 2019, at 21:40, Ken Wright wrote: > >> On 2/11/19 9:33 PM, Bill Cole wrote: >>> On 11 Feb 2019, at 20:24, Ken Wright wrote: >>> it does say it's loading the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check module >>> >>> This is evidence that one or more

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 11 Feb 2019, at 21:40, Ken Wright wrote: On 2/11/19 9:33 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 11 Feb 2019, at 20:24, Ken Wright wrote: it does say it's loading the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check module This is evidence that one or more of the following is true about spamd: 1. It is using a

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/11/19 9:33 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > On 11 Feb 2019, at 20:24, Ken Wright wrote: > >> it does say it's loading the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check module > > This is evidence that one or more of the following is true about spamd: > > 1. It is using a different SpamAssassin config than you

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 11 Feb 2019, at 20:24, Ken Wright wrote: it does say it's loading the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check module This is evidence that one or more of the following is true about spamd: 1. It is using a different SpamAssassin config than you use from the command line 2. It is using a

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/11/19 7:23 PM, sha...@shanew.net wrote: > I'd suggest running spamassassin directly from the command line with > the -D and --lint options to see if that provides more detail about > what exactly is going wrong.  This is going to give you a lot of > output so you'll probably want to run it

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread shanew
I'd suggest running spamassassin directly from the command line with the -D and --lint options to see if that provides more detail about what exactly is going wrong. This is going to give you a lot of output so you'll probably want to run it like: spamassassin -D --lint 2>&1 | less On Sun, 10

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-11 Thread Ken Wright
On 2/10/19 3:56 AM, Giovanni Bechis wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:30:28AM -0500, Ken Wright wrote: >> I've been trying to set up an email server and I want to use >> Spamassassin to prevent it from becoming Spam Central.  I've installed >> SA and spamass-milter, but when I try to restart

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-10 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/10/19 7:35 AM, @lbutlr wrote: Don't do it! Why not? Seriously, running and maintaining a mail server is practically a full-time job. I profoundly disagree. I spend less than 30 minutes a week administering my email / web / dns / news / shell servers. I've been spending about the

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-10 Thread @lbutlr
On 10 Feb 2019, at 00:30, Ken Wright wrote: > I've been trying to set up an email server Don't do it! Seriously, running and maintaining a mail server is practically a full-time job. Do you really want to spend a lot of time (and some time nearly every day) maintaining and patching and

Re: Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-10 Thread Giovanni Bechis
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:30:28AM -0500, Ken Wright wrote: > I've been trying to set up an email server and I want to use > Spamassassin to prevent it from becoming Spam Central.  I've installed > SA and spamass-milter, but when I try to restart it after customizing > the config files, I get

Having trouble getting Spamassassin to work on Ubuntu Server 18.10

2019-02-09 Thread Ken Wright
I've been trying to set up an email server and I want to use Spamassassin to prevent it from becoming Spam Central.  I've installed SA and spamass-milter, but when I try to restart it after customizing the config files, I get this: Job for spamassassin.service failed because the control process