[Rspamd-Users] symbol insertion issue: unknown symbol

[Philip Paeps]

On 2026-09-09 17:39:19 (+0800), Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2026, at 13:54, Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> wrote:
>> I upgraded from rspamd-3.11.0 to rspamd-4.1.0_1 this morning (yes yes 
>> ... big jump) and we are now seeing this in our logs:
>>
>> /var/log/rspamd/rspamd.log:2026-09-09 00:26:19 #42979(rspamd_proxy) 
>> <4hfhSC>; proxy; lua_task_insert_result_common: symbol insertion 
>> issue: unknown symbol ALLOW_DKIM_SIGN; trace: 
>> [1]:{/usr/local/share/rspamd/plugins/settings.lua:422 - fun [Lua]}; 
>> [2]:{/usr/local/share/rspamd/lualib/fun.lua:34 - call_if_not_empty 
>> [Lua]}; [3]:{/usr/local/share/rspamd/lualib/fun.lua:192 - each 
>> [Lua]}; [4]:{/usr/local/share/rspamd/plugins/settings.lua:421 - 
>> <unknown> [Lua]};
>>
>> Curiously, mail seems to be signed that we don't expect to see 
>> signed.  I guess that's better than not signing email that ought to 
>> be signed but ... still not ideal.
>>
>> Could someone please gently hit me with a clue mallet?
>
> Stupid question, you did check the output of checkconf? Didn't you?  
> (hint if you were using tablespace, you need to update your code.)

rspamadm configtest is mostly happy.

root at mx1:~ # rspamadm configtest
configured task_timeout 8.00 is less than maximum symbols cache timeout 
42.00; some symbols can be terminated before checks
list of top 6 symbols by execution time: GREYLIST_CHECK(9.00); 
GREYLIST_SAVE(9.00); HISTORY_SAVE(9.00); RATELIMIT_UPDATE(9.00); 
ARC_CHECK(5.00); ASN_CHECK(1.00)
syntax OK

I think the thing it whines about is unrelated but I should fix that 
too.

There are no stupid questions ... only stupid people ... and I'm 
definitely one of those! :)

Thanks for keeping me honest.

Philip