FixingErrors

Fixing Errors

See also FrequentlyAskedQuestions.

• Compiling & installing:
  
  • How can I tell what SpamAssassin is doing; or whether a SpamAssassin feature is enabled: TestingInstallation

• • 'spamassassin' works, but mails through my MTA filter don't scan correctly: AskingAboutIntegrations
    
  • On Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1, I get 'Makefile: 54: *** missing separator. Stop.': MakeMissingSeparator; or 'could not locate your pod2man program': Pod2ManRedHat

• • Razor gives me errors about 'razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Insecure dependency': RazorInsecureDependency

• • How can I make SpamAssassin 2.63 on Windows with ActivePerl 5.8.1 or 5.8.2: Sa263MakeWithPerl582
    
  • When trying to build spamc with SSL, I get openssl-related errors concerning krb5.h missing, etc.: OpensslKrb
    
  • Installation fails in "t/spamd_hup.t": TspamdHuptCompileError
    
  • Upgrading to v3.0.0 and running the tests on Solaris renames my host to "--fqdn": FqdnError
    
• It doesn't run:
  
  • I get coredumps from 'spamd': SpamdCoredumps
    
  • After running sa-compile, I get warnings like 'symbol Mail_SpamAssassin_CompiledRegexps_body_0_scan17: referenced symbol not found': SaCompileRefSymbolError

• • I get warnings about "tainting" when I run spamassassin from /etc/procmailrc: ProcmailTaintWarning
    
  • On startup spamd dies with the error "IO::Socket::INET: Invalid argument": IoSocketInetInvalidArgument; or the message "Required module Storable not found!": StorableNotFound
    
  • I get warnings in the syslog from spamd about 'Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 4': Ipv6Resolver
    
  • When I run 'spamassassin --lint', I see messages about '

     Net::Ident::_export_hooks() called too early to check prototype

    ': NetIdentPrototype
    
• Warning messages in the system log:
  
  • I get warnings in the syslog from spamd like prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it, but I can't find a --max-clients setting: MaxClientsWarning
    
  • I get warnings in the syslog from spamd about 'Can't call method "bgsend" on an undefined value': CantCallMethodBgsend
    
  • I see lots of warnings like ... matches null string many times in regex ... at ... Text/Wrap.pm: TextWrapError
    
• Undefined dependency errors:
  
  • I get warnings that look like this dbg: rules: meta test XXX_SOME_NAME_XXX has undefined dependency 'XXX_SOME_THING_XXX':

    • [Self:SareUndefinedDependency SARE ] related errors

    • [Self:PyzorUndefinedDependency PYZOR ] related errors
      

• Performance & memory:
  
  • SpamAssassin runs too slowly, or I see error messages about tcp timeout, or it takes an extremely long time to scan emails: FasterPerformance
    
  • I keep running out of memory, or the spamd processes take huge amounts of RAM: OutOfMemoryProblems
    
  • SpamAssassin starts to chew away all memory and finally fails with 'Deep recursion on subroutine "DB_File::AUTOLOAD"': DeepRecursionInDbFile
    
  • When I look at 'top', the spamd processes are not sharing enough memory: TopSharedMemoryBug
    
  • Procmail and SpamAssassin seem not to process some of my messages when the load gets too high: NoProcessOnOverload
    
  • I keep running out of open file descriptors, typically when using spamd: OutOfFileDescriptors
    
  • I find lots of bayes_toks.expireNNNNN files in my bayes_path directory: ManyBayesToksExpireFiles
    
  • The auto-whitelist file grows very large, and I'd like to reduce it: ShrinkAutoWhiteList
    
• Filtering and labeling:
  
  • When I use "-t", it tells me my mail is spam, even when it's not: AlwaysSpamWithTswitch

• • Mail is being filtered for users listed in 'all_spam_to': AllSpamToFiltering

• • Spam to someone in 'all_spam_to' is also being delivered to other users, without filtering: AllSpamToNoFiltering
    
  • The subject and body of a message are correctly marked as spam, but the X-Spam-Status header says No: BogusSpamStatusHeader
    
  • A mail has enough points to be spam, but isn't marked as such: RoundingIssues
    
  • Spam messages are getting through, how do I determine which tests need to have their scores adjusted to match the messages? AdjustRuleScore
    
  • I'm seeing the rule ALL_TRUSTED giving spam negative points. What should I do?: FixingAllTrusted
    
  • I'm using OpenDNS and seeing SURBL or URIBL rules firing on non-spam: OpenDnsAndUribls
    
• Customizing (or failure to customize):
  
  • I edited my local.cf file, but SpamAssassin isn't recognising the changes: LocalCfNotRead
    
  • In what order are the SpamAssassin configuration files read?: ConfFileOrder

• • How do I disable certain checks?: DisablingRules
    
• Other problems:
  
  • I see 'WARNING: signing subkey 24F434CE is not cross-certified' or 'error: GPG validation failed!' when I run "sa-update": SaUpdateKeyNotCrossCertified
    
  • I get corrupted messages, when using SpamAssassin 3.1.1 with spamass-milter 0.3.0: SaMilter030CorruptMsgs

• • I get corrupted messages, when using SpamAssassin with exim and procmail: EximProcmailCorruptMsgs
    
  • I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin and amavisd-new: AmavisdNewTrouble

• • I get errors about tying to a Bayes database when I copy it onto another machine, or after upgrading my Berkeley DB libraries: DbDumpAndLoad

• • I'm using spamass-milter and the -notfirsthop rules like DYNABLOCK don't work properly: SpamassNotFirstHop
    
  • I'm getting unexpected 421 bounces with exim and spamassassin: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4246
    
• Old errors, no longer frequently-asked:
  • When I use SpamAssassin with Mail::Audit, I get a 'you cannot use body()' error: MailAuditBodyError
    
  • When I run a tool that uses SpamAssassin, I get 'Can't locate Mail/SpamAssassin/NoMailAudit.pm in @INC' with SA 3.0.0: CantLocateNoMailAudit

• • I get 'Malformed UTF-8 character' errors on Red Hat 8/9, or using perl 5.8.0, with SA 2.43: RedHatMalformedUtf8
    
  • Upgrading to v3.0.0 I'm getting this error 'bayes db version 2 is not able to be used, aborting!': BayesUpgradeError
    
  • Performance on Red Hat 8/9/Fedora Core 1 is terrible, compared to other OSes: Utf8Performance

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