Re: .../updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf is ignored

jdow <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20250610 17:26:41, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2025-06-10 18:16:08 -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
>> On 2025-06-10 at 12:21:38 UTC-0400 (Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:21:38 +0200)
>> Vincent Lefevre<[email protected]>
>> is rumored to have said:
>>
>>> The file
>>> /var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
>>> is ignored on my Debian/stable server.
>> Are you 100% certain of that?
>>
>> Running 'spamassassin --lint -D config' will give you a rundown of the
>> config files as they get loaded. Somewhere in the middle of the output
>> should be 4 lines like this:
>>
>>    dbg: config: fixed relative path:
>> /var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
>>    dbg: config: using
>> "/var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf" for
>> included file
>>    dbg: config: read file
>> /var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
>>    dbg: config: parsing file
>> /var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
>>
>> If they are there, that file IS loaded and parsed by SA. If they're not
>> present, there should be clues in whatever SA does emit.
> I have that.
>
> Then I don't understand why I still have the issue with
>
>    RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED
>    RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED
>    RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED
>
> (in the spamd logs and in the message headers).

Be rash. Search for these strings in all the usual places including user_prefs 
and under the /etc/mail(/spamassassin) tree, for example. Of course, the really 
dumb question is, "Are you running a version that looks in the folder you are 
mucking around in?"

{o.o}   Joanne has been known to, roughly speaking, "find ." on the machine to 
find such mysteries. I find amazing evil that way.
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