On Monday 20 October 2003 11:47 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> Now I use spamd with spamc called from a procmail recipe. The user is
> "nobody" instead of me. So, does doing "sa-learn", etc still work? Does
> user root or nobody make use of the learning I give to spamassassin via
> sa-learn?
On Monday 20 October 2003 12:12 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> I actually don't use sa-learn, but I do use individual procmailrc's
> instead of /etc/procmailrc; this causes spamc to always be called with
> the user's UID.
>
This isn't necessary. By default, spamd does a setuid to the user that runs
'spamc'. The default Mandrake configuration does this. See 'man spamd', and
the '-u' option.
You can check this by turning on debugging by changing
/etc/init.d/spamassassin so
OPTIONS="-D -d -c -a -H"
You should see in /var/log/messages a line like:
Oct 20 18:23:37 DepotRd spamd[3443]: info: setuid to glenn succeeded
A site wide Bayes database can be configured in /etc/mail/spamassassin with
the lines:
bayes_path /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
bayes_file_mode 0777
I don't think that the Bayes databases are updated at all unless you
explicitly use 'spamassassin -r', or 'sa-learn'. But don't quote me.
The 2.44 version of Spamassassin included with Mandrake 9.1 didn't include the
Bayes classifier; get the most current version from the Spamassassin web
site.
See this FAQ entry for tips on submitting whole mailboxes to spamassassin:
http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp
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