dovecot - Jan 2022 - Spamassassin fails

Hi!

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?

Regards, Hans



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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