ports/134882: amavisd-new problems

[Elliot Dierksen]

>Number:         134882
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       amavisd-new problems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 23 22:00:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Elliot Dierksen
>Release:        7.1-RELEASE-p5
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD alfred.oau.org 7.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p5 #8: Sat May 23 07:20:57 EDT 2009     root at alfred.oau.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
I upgraded this morning from 7.1-RELEASE-p4 to 7.1-RELEASE-p5. I also upgraded from p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5_2 to p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.5_3 and from amavisd-new-2.6.2_2,1 to amavisd-new-2.6.3,1. After the upgrade, the documented method for disabling the anti-spam code in amavisd-new (setting  @bypass_virus_checks_maps = (1); in amavisd.conf) fails. With that value set, amavisd fails during startup with the following message:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "Amavis::SpamControl" at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 13878.

I was able to work around it by setting @bypass_spam_checks_maps = ( [ "." ] ); in amavisd.conf. It still loads the spam code, but does not process it. I had been using the documented method to disable the spam code for years, and it just now failed. I suspect the problem is with the new version of amavisd-new.

For what it is worth, I have this disabled because I have never been able to get amavisd-new to insert the spam headers into the mail message. I have been using spamass-milter to do that. I would prefer to do it through amavisd-new and avoid another milter call, but it never adds the header. I have determined that it does write the spam header into the quarantine file if the message gets quarantined, but never into the message that gets passed on the MTA.

>How-To-Repeat:
See description
>Fix:
unknown

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