Re: Problem with new spamassassin install

Hi Giovanni,

Thank you, it is fixed now.  A big part of the problem is it's been a 
while since I've built a new mailserver, and the last time I did was on 
FreeBSD, Ubuntu changes around a lot of stuff and I was wanting to use 
the packaged binaries of things.

I had assumed that the newer spamd had integrated milter support since 
the last time I had used it and some instructions I ran across seemed to 
support this.  Those were wrong.  I used my older notes and got it all 
straightened out.   I'll post a quick instruction step to the mailing 
list here because what's currently available right now on blogs and such 
is completely wrong.

Ted

On 4/15/2026 2:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 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