Questions[spamassassin](ubuntu)

I have a wierd problem with SpamAssassin loggin a problem to mail.log Sometimes, SpamAssassin complains about "internal error, python traceback seen in response".

What can I do to resolve this problem ?

Example log:

Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamc[365495]: connect to spamd on ::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection timed out
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamc[365494]: connect to spamd on ::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection timed out
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamc[365495]: connect to spamd on ::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection timed out
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamc[365494]: connect to spamd on ::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection timed out
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamd[350070]: spamd: connection from 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1]:53516 to port 783, fd 6
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamd[350071]: spamd: connection from 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1]:53518 to port 783, fd 6
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamd[350070]: spamd: setuid to debian-spamd succeeded
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamd[350071]: spamd: setuid to debian-spamd succeeded
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamd[350070]: spamd: processing message <[email protected]> for debian-spamd:125
Jan 10 11:06:31 scpej-hga spamd[350071]: spamd: processing message <[email protected]> for debian-spamd:125
Jan 10 11:06:33 scpej-hga spamd[365524]: util: setuid: ruid=125 euid=125 rgid=135 135 egid=135 135 
Jan 10 11:06:33 scpej-hga spamd[365523]: util: setuid: ruid=125 euid=125 rgid=135 135 egid=135 135 
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350070]: internal error, python traceback seen in response
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350071]: internal error, python traceback seen in response
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350070]: spamd: clean message (4.1/5.0) for debian-spamd:125 in 3.8 seconds, 12458 bytes.
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350070]: spamd: result: . 4 - DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HTML_MESSAGE,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED scantime=3.8,size=12458,user=debian-spamd,uid=125,required_score=5.0,rhost=127.0.0.1,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=53516,mid=<[email protected]>,autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350071]: spamd: clean message (4.1/5.0) for debian-spamd:125 in 3.8 seconds, 12458 bytes.
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350071]: spamd: result: . 4 - DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HTML_MESSAGE,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED scantime=3.8,size=12458,user=debian-spamd,uid=125,required_score=5.0,rhost=127.0.0.1,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=53518,mid=<[email protected]>,autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350039]: prefork: child states: IB
Jan 10 11:06:34 scpej-hga spamd[350039]: prefork: child states: II

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS running SpamAssassin 3.4.4-1ubuntu1.

Thank you !

We use a yahoo mail account for work and it was fine for several years but recently started irregularly marking key emails as spam (the emails are software generated but are actually booking requests for our business). We've tried several options on the yahoo side (adding sender to contact list, manually moving the email back to inbox using both the web interface and within Thunderbird, adding filter rules within Yahoo). I also tried adding filtering in Thunderbird, but this only automatically filters the inbox, other folders must be done manually.

Are there any email programs or separate filter tools that can be configured to remotely execute filters on any IMAP folder (not just inbox)? I don't mind if it's a script and I need to create a cron job. Evolution seems to be similar to Thunderbird in only permitting automatic filtering of the inbox. The closest thing seems to be spamassassin/isbg, but I just want to run a simple filter, not a full-blown spam filtering tool - not sure if it can be easily adapted for this task. For the moment, I'd prefer this approach rather than migrating to a new email account.

Thanks for any suggestions, Markus

I have installed and successfully configured exim4 and sa-exim on my Ubuntu LTS installation. Spam Emails are successfully flagged:

X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 89.238.139.198
X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: hertaqcrqsaa@xxx
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?F=C3=BCr_den_privaten_und_gesch=C3=A4ftlichen_Gebrauch:_=C3=B6konomische_LED-Lampen,_verbilligt?=
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on mail.root42.de
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Level: **********
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=10.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_60,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20,
    HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_3,RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS,SPF_PASS,
    T_DKIM_INVALID,URIBL_ABUSE_SURBL,URIBL_BLOCKED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM
    autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2
X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:47:16 +0000)
X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on xxx.xxxxxx.de)

But still the email is delivered to the user's INBOX Maildir. How can I change this to go to the user's .Spam Maildir?

I'm trying to build an email server based on Ubuntu, and I want to run SpamAssassin on it. I've followed the instructions, installed it from the repositories, and when I try to start SpamAssassin I get an error message like the following:

Job for spamassassin.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

See "systemctl status spamassassin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Running sudo systemctl status spamassassin.service gets me the following:

Feb 02 01:43:46 grace systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Feb 02 01:43:46 grace systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Feb 02 01:43:46 grace systemd[1]: Stopped Perl-based spam filter using text analysis.
Feb 02 01:43:46 grace systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Feb 02 01:43:46 grace systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 02 01:43:46 grace systemd[1]: Failed to start Perl-based spam filter using text analysis.

I've tried stopping the service and starting it as well as simply restarting it, but it doesn't make a difference. I can't figure out what's going on.

Periodically, I see the following in syslog:

systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Unit entered failed state.
systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

but the service does not automatically restart. It does start successfully with:

sudo service spamassassin restart

Can I configure spamassassin to restart automatically after it fails?