Spamassassin fails

[Hans Brage]

Den 2022-01-09 kl. 21:04, skrev Benny Pedersen:
> 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

Hi!

I'm running opensuse Tumbleweed and did a regular dist-upgrade (zypper 
dup). However due to a big workload at that time I didn't pay to much 
attention to what actually was updated then.

Spamassassin reports version 3.4.6

// Hans