John Horne wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking to use spamassassin (version 2.20) on our central
> mailhubs. I have run it successfully on my linux PC with Exim 4.04. So I
> thought I'd move it onto one of the mailhubs - a Sun Solaris 8 box with Exim
> 3.36.
>
> It all seems to work okay for messages submitted from the mailhub itself
> (i.e. I log onto the mailhub and invoke:
> exim jhorne@???
> ('tracy' is the name of the system). The message headers show the
> received protocol as 'spam-scanned'. However, if I return to my work PC and
> send a message so that it goes via 'tracy', then I get an error returned:
>
> The following address(es) failed:
>
> jhorne@???
> Child process of spamcheck transport returned 2 from command:
> /usr/local/exim/bin/exim
>
> The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
>
> ------ jhorne@??? ------
>
> An error was detected while processing a file of BSMTP input.
> The error message was:
>
> 554 Unexpected end of file
>
> The SMTP transaction started in line 0.
> The error was detected in line 4.
> 0 previous messages were successfully processed.
> The rest of the batch was abandoned.
> 554 Unexpected end of file
> Transaction started in line 0
> Error detected in line 4
>
> ==========================================
>
> It then gives a copy of the original message. I installed spamassassin
> according to the web site:
> http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html
>
> I am using spamd which was started as root.
What flags did you start spamd with? I think you need -F 0 at a
minimum. Otherwise spamd will add an mbox-style "From " line.
John
>
> The relevant bits of the Exim configure file are:
>
> # Spam Assassin (transport)
> spamcheck:
> driver = pipe
> command = /usr/local/exim/bin/exim -oMr spam-scanned -bS
> transport_filter = /usr/local/bin/spamc
> bsmtp = all
> home_directory = /tmp
> current_directory = /tmp
> user = exim
> group = mail
> no_return_path_add
> log_output
> return_fail_output
> prefix =
> suffix =
>
> # Spam Assassin (director)
> spamcheck_router:
> no_expn
> no_verify
> domains = tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk : localhost
> local_parts = jhorne
> condition = "${if and { {!def:h_X-Spam-Flag:} \
> {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}}} {1}{0}}"
> driver = smartuser
> transport = spamcheck
>
> -------------------
>
> I have searched the mailing list archives and can find similar problems when
> using the spamcheck.pl script (?), but no real solution. I can find no-one
> having this problem when using spamd. I should add that for the trusted
> users 'exim' is included, so I can see no reason to have a problem with the
> pipe. The error seems to indicate that it is a problem with running the exim
> binary, but I have no idea what it is - why does it get an unexpected end of
> file? Because local messages work okay I can't run exim with '-d9' since it
> won't show any problem (actually I have just done that and I'll check the
> output, but it looks okay and no indication of what may cause a problem
> remotely).
>
> Very strange. Anyway, as usual these things happen on a Friday afternoon :-)
>
> If anyone has any ideas about this then I'd be grateful.
>
> John.
>
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> John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
> E-mail: jhorne@???
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