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[SOLVED] Mageia 1 : spamassassin broken ?

PostPosted: Jan 22nd, '12, 12:01
by ankif
I bet something must be wrong with my installation because I haven't found any topic about spamassassin being broken in Mageia 1. However, I'm using a fresh install after repartitioning my hard drive so I don't understand what went wrong.

I'm using evolution 2.32.2 along with SpamAssassin version 3.4.0-r929098 running on Perl version 5.12.3.

The symptoms : error messages in Evolution whenever it receives new messages. New messages are stored in spam folder. The detailed message is something like "spamassassin returned error code 255".

What I have tried : spamassassin --lint states "no rules were found! Do you need to run 'sa-update'?". sa-update spits out errors when trying to retrieve updates.

Finally I made ugly hacks in sa-update to bypass several pitfalls. So my problem is solved. But I still wonder why I am alone to report this. If someone had the slightest idea...

I quickly checked Mageia 2 alpha 2 : evolution seems to have changed quite a bit in its 3.3.3 release, I couldn't find any reference to spamassassin. I guess I will have the surprise when I switch to Mageia 2 !

Re: Mageia 1 : spamassassin broken ?

PostPosted: Jan 23rd, '12, 19:47
by doktor5000
Would you please post the output of
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rpm -qa | grep spamassassin


FWIW, there are some bugs reported against Mageia 1 spamassassin:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3814
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3712

Re: Mageia 1 : spamassassin broken ?

PostPosted: Jan 23rd, '12, 23:11
by ankif
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rpm -qa | grep spamassassin
spamassassin-3.3.2-0.0.r2260312.1.mga1


But thanks for the links to the bug reports. Actually, bug 3814 is what I have encountered, and the correction proposed by Remco is very close to my own workaround (mine is dirtier to be honest :oops: ). The problem lies indeed in the version which is computed.

OK, now I'm happy : I'm not the only one. ;)

And since I have found a workaround, the topic can marked as solved.

Thanks !

Re: Mageia 1 : spamassassin broken ?

PostPosted: Jan 24th, '12, 12:07
by doktor5000
ankif wrote:And since I have found a workaround, the topic can marked as solved.


You can do this yourself, just edit the topic of the first post, and prefix it with [SOLVED] ;)

Re: Mageia 1 : spamassassin broken ?

PostPosted: Jan 24th, '12, 13:26
by ankif
doktor5000 wrote:You can do this yourself, just edit the topic of the first post, and prefix it with [SOLVED] ;)


Yep, already done it yesterday ! (just after my post actually)