Re: SA only seeing certain mails

larkim schrieb:
> I own a couple of domains that are hosted on a shared hosting setup, for
> which I don't have shell access but do have cPanel access.
>
> For quite a while SA was working nicely, but recently it appears to have
> stopped filtering many mails. The reason I am saying this is that mails are
> arriving in my mailbox (on the server) for which a few have X-Spam headers
> written, but most of them don't.

> The hosting is running SA 3.2.3. My user_prefs file contains:-
> required_score 4
> required_hits 4
> rewrite_header subject MATTSPAM
> bayes_expiry_max_db_size 150000

At which treshold are the headers inserted, i dont see that value here?

> I've had problems with toks files not expiring properly and the bayes_toks
> file growing to 40MB, as well as file locks sometimes not being removed, so
> daily I have two cronjobs running:-
> ls -l .spamassassin/ to give me a file listing so I can delete any locked
> files (get a lock about once every 5 days or so)
> sa-learn --force-expire -D to keep bayes_toks under control
>
> Both of these seem to work fine, and may be overkill.
>
> What I'm looking for is a way (behind cPanel) to debug what is or isn't
> happening with SA to cause some mails to be "seen" by SA and some not to be
> seen. I get about 5 ham mails per day, and about 1,000 spam mails, so its
> starting to irritate me!!

Ooh, thats a bad ratio ;-).

> Any help gratefully received! (I don't pay anything for the shared hosting
> as I get it free from a mate who is a re-seller, so I'm not really in a
> position to hassle their help desk!)

Some ideas:
Check the logs (or maybe ask them to do so)? Perhaps mails without headers exceed some "filesize tresholds"? Without detailed info there may be only guesses ...

> TIA!
>
> Matt

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