Why Spamassassin update fails with channel failed error ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All Versions)

Issue

  • Why the spamassassin update is failing with following error ?
10-Jun-2023 04:23:39: SpamAssassin: Unknown error code 3 from sa-update channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed
11-Jun-2023 05:53:48: SpamAssassin: Unknown error code 3 from sa-update channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed
12-Jun-2023 04:55:58: SpamAssassin: Unknown error code 3 from sa-update channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed
channel: could not find working mirror, channel failed

Resolution

  • Disable affected channel in spamassassin configuration. Comment out the related lines to disable affected channel.

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

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

Root Cause

  • The channel 'sought.rules.yerp.org' has failed as there are no mirrors available.

    14-Jun-2023 05:32:30: SpamAssassin: Update available, but download or extract failed 
channel: no 'mirrors.sought.rules.yerp.org' record found, channel failed
channel: could not find working mirror, channel failed

Diagnostic Steps

  • On disabling the affected channel run verbose command to see if updates are working with default channel 'updates.spamassassin.org'

    # sa-update --nogpg -v

  • The default channel for spamassassin will be used as 'updates.spamassassin.org'.

    Update available for channel updates.spamassassin.org: 1910382 -> 1910422
http: (curl) GET http://update-site.com/1910422.tar.gz, success
http: (curl) GET http://update-site.com/1910422.tar.gz.sha512, success
Update was available, and was downloaded and installed successfully

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