Re: Problem with new spamassassin install

[email protected] Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:31:21 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 4/15/26 9:33 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> I'm getting the following error:
> 
> 2026-04-15T00:13:46.607535-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8049]: 63F7ABQQ008049: [61.179.73.179] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA-v4
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.678813-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]: 63F7ACVg008050: milter_sys_read(spamassassin): cmd read returned 71, expecting 1397768524
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.679060-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]: 63F7ACVg008050: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.679149-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]: 63F7ACVg008050: Milter (spamassassin): init failed to open
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.679251-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8050]: 63F7ACVg008050: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.684820-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]: 63F7AWUo008054: milter_sys_read(spamassassin): cmd read returned 71, expecting 1397768524
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.685048-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]: 63F7AWUo008054: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.685131-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]: 63F7AWUo008054: Milter (spamassassin): init failed to open
> 2026-04-15T00:13:48.685210-07:00 clientmail sm-mta[8054]: 63F7AWUo008054: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
> 
[...]
> root@clientmail:/var/log# cat /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin.m4
> dnl
> dnl Process mail through spamassassin
> dnl
> define(`confMILTER_MACROS_ENVFROM', `i, {auth_type}, {auth_authen}, {auth_ssf}, {auth_author}, {mail_mailer}, {mail_host}, {mail_addr}, r, b, v, Z')dnl
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
> root@clientmail:/var/log#
> 
Are you using a milter to integrate Sendmail and SpamAssassin ? Which software has created `/var/run/spamass.sock` ?
SpamAssassin doesn't understand Milter protocol, you need a glue software to integrate Sendmail and SpamAssassin, some info are available at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/IntegratedInMta

  Cheers
   Giovanni
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