Issue Spamassassin sought.rules.yerp.org channel failed

[evcz]

Hi

since the yesterday seeing /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron fail with these errors (from from /var/log/sa-update.log)

Mar 12 03:10:59.859 [17592] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1
channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed
11-Mar-2021 05:56:21: SpamAssassin: Unknown error code 3 from sa-update

on default plesk installs on centos 7

Is that channel shipped with plesk by default?
that domains stopped resolving 2 days ago

Shall plesk drop the usage of that yerp mirror?

 

[IgorG]

Try to debug this issue with command:

# /usr/bin/sa-update --debug --verbose

Most probably this is the temporary issue on SpamAssassin side.

 

[zoni]

channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed
13-Mar-2021 04:20:40: SpamAssassin: Unknown error code 3 from sa-update

Same issue here, I started getting this cron error 3 days ago, hope its a remote problem.

 

[Kaspar]

If I am not mistaken the Sought rule set hasn't been maintained for quite a number of years now. Hence the rule set channel has been removed from newer SA versions, but it is still part of SA version 3.4.0 on Centos 7 (and perhaps other distros as well). Not sure why it suddenly started producing errors now. I guess they finally pulled the plug. SpamAssassin documentation recommends not using the Sought rule set. See also SoughtRules - SPAMASSASSIN - Apache Software Foundation.

I guess you could disable the channel by commenting out the CHANNELURL in the sought.conf file.

# nano /etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d/sought.conf

# http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SoughtRules
# CHANNELURL=sought.rules.yerp.org
# KEYID=6C6191E3
# Ignore everything below.

 

[Morpheus]

Hi, same issue here too.
It's that the solution to stop errors? Has anybody checkit?

Thanks.

 

[IgorG]

It's that the solution to stop errors?

SpamAssassin fails to update on a Plesk server: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed

Applicable to: Plesk for Linux Symptoms SpamAssassin update fails: CONFIG_TEXT: channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failedchannel: no 'mirrors.updates.spamassassi...

support.plesk.com

 

[Morpheus]

Thanks Igor!

 

[rik]

I had the same problem. I commented it out as shown in this article.
# SoughtRules - SPAMASSASSIN - Apache Software Foundation
# CHANNELURL=sought.rules.yerp.org
# KEYID=6C6191E3
# Ignore everything below.

The next day. I received an error email, is it relevant?
subject:
Cron <> /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/sa-update.log
body:
/etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d/sought.conf: line 7: -----BEGIN: command not found
/etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d/sought.conf: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d/sought.conf: line 8: `Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)'

Oops, I just realized that return 0 should not be commented out. (Changed?).
# SoughtRules - SPAMASSASSIN - Apache Software Foundation
# CHANNELURL=sought.rules.yerp.org
# KEYID=6C6191E3
# Ignore everything below.
return 0

(The correction was written in the link. My apologies.)