Re: Spamassassin fails

On 2022-01-09 20:35, Hans Brage wrote:

I've been running a server with Dovecot, Sieve, Spamassassin and getmail to handle my emails for several years now.

Just before christmas I did one of these regular updates and since then I got problems with spamassassin. Quite a lot of spam is not been filtered out. I can see a lot of errors like these in the mail-log.

spamd: failed to create readable default_prefs: /home/vmail/.spamassassin/user_prefs

Vmail is the user that is running my scripts that retrieves email and executes spamc.

Any ideas?

with that sparse info its not possible to help :/

have you changed distro eg update of debian versions ?, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade ?

is it ubuntu ?, redhat ?, more info please