Problems with mailscaner.cf

[ovizii]

Going to GUI => Tools/Links => MailScanner Lint

I see the following lines I am concerned about:

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Connected to SpamAssassin cache database 	0.00081
config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf": use_auto_whitelist 0 	0.6575
config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf": auto_whitelist_factory Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList 	0.00084
SpamAssassin reported an error. 	12.94365

those lines looks like this in mailscanner.cf:

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use_auto_whitelist 0
auto_whitelist_factory          Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList

Not sure what's wrong here...
Can anyone spot the problem?

[shawniverson]

Any problems with the whitespace around those entries?

[ovizii]

No idea, it literally looks like this:

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# If you are using a UNIX machine with all database files on local disks,
# and no sharing of those databases across NFS filesystems, you can use a
# more efficient, but non-NFS-safe, locking mechanism.   Do this by adding
# the line "lock_method flock" to the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
# file. This is strongly recommended if you're not using NFS, as it is
# much faster than the NFS-safe locker.

lock_method flock

# The --auto-whitelist and -a options for "spamd" and "spamassassin" to
# turn on the auto-whitelist have been removed and replaced by the
# "use_auto_whitelist" configuration option which is also now turned on by
# default.

use_auto_whitelist 0

# =============== RBSL related items ===============

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#Begin E.F.A. mods for MySQL
bayes_store_module              Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SQL
bayes_sql_dsn                   DBI:mysql:sa_bayes:localhost
bayes_sql_username              sa_user
bayes_sql_password              XXX
auto_whitelist_factory          Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList
user_awl_dsn                    DBI:mysql:sa_bayes:localhost
user_awl_sql_username           sa_user

[shawniverson]

There's a strange whitespace character at the end of each of these lines.

[ovizii]

I've copied the text straight from my ssh session.
could you share your mailscanner.cf via pastebin (minus anything confidential of course) - that way I coudl copy/paste the relevant sections and see if anything changes.

[shawniverson]

http://pastebin.com/BL8bqL8z

[ovizii]

Thanks, I've opened the paste, switched to RAW view and copied the lines I was interested in, then pasted them into my config, deleting my original lines. Restarted Mailscanner.

Same problem still.

Can you check your Mailscanner Lint results from the GUI? Is your's OK?

[shawniverson]

Yes, no errors.

[shawniverson]

Is your editor using UNIX line termination?

What happens if you dos2unix the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file?

[ovizii]

Not all that familiar with dos2unix, is this correct?

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dos2unix -n /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf mailscanner.cf.unix
dos2unix: converting file /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf to file mailscanner.cf.unix in UNIX format ...

cp /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf.bckp
cp mailscanner.cf.unix /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

restarted Mailscanner

Problem persists.

[shawniverson]

Hmm......I must be mistaken....let's proceed with your config as ok.

use_auto_whitelist and auto_whitelist_factory depend on a spamassassin plugin.

/etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre

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loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL

Is this plugin enabled?

[ovizii]

NOPE, the plugins is disabled as I enabled TXREP instead:

v310.pre

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# AWL - do auto-whitelist checks
# disabled by ovi because I enabled TXREP in v341.pre
#loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL

v341.pre

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# TxRep - Reputation database that replaces AWL
 loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TxRep

mailscanner.cf

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# TXREP DATABASE
txrep_factory                   Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList
user_awl_sql_table              txrep
user_awl_dsn                    DBI:mysql:sa_bayes:localhost
user_awl_sql_username           sa_user
user_awl_sql_password           secret

but also still contains as I didn't think that would be a problem after disabling the AWL plugin:

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auto_whitelist_factory          Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList

[shawniverson]

Then you need to comment out those two options, they are not valid without the plugin enabled.

[ovizii]

Thanks for solving the mystery. Lesson learned, keep things together not in different files, makes for easier tracking