Hmm, is there another list I should be directing this question to? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks,
-Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew R Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: strange behavior with spamd's virtual-config-dir > > Greetings- > > I've got spamd running fairly well in a virtual mail environment with > postfix, where I have many domains and hundreds of mailboxes on the linux > filesystem owned by one system account (we'll call it 'vmail'). > > I invoke spamd with something that looks like this: > > /usr/bin/spamd -p 784 -d -a -x -m5 -u vmail -r /var/run/vmail-spamd.pid > --virtual-config-dir=/home/vmail/mail/%d/%l > > The actual virtual mail system is laid out according to the following > schema: > > /home/vmail/mail/domain.tld/user/ - the 'home' directory of the user > /home/vmail/mail/domain.tld/user/Maildir - self explanatory > /home/vmail/mail/domain.tld/user/.spamassassin - this directory is created > by spamc when the above config is used > > Now, this seems all good to me, but when I'm actually processing the mail, > I > get this: > > May 25 13:12:29 xxxxx spamd[29600]: Using default config for > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /home/vmail/mail/domain.tld/user/user_prefs > > This is not where the user_prefs would be located in a default SA > environment; the user_prefs would be located in a .spamassassin directory. > > Why is this happening? It stores the AWL and the bayes in the created > .spamassassin directory, so why does it look for the user_prefs file > somewhere else? If I changed the --virtual-config-dir to something like > /home/vmail/mail/%d/%l/.spamassassin, the user prefs would be where I > would > assume, but spamc then creates _another_ .spamassassin directory and > operates in the fashion explained above. > > While this is more or less workable, it is not as clean as default SA > behavior in a normal environment, and not what I expected (I was writing > out > user_prefs configs to the .spamassassin directory). I'd like to declare > the > --virtual-config-dir and have it contain the config, the bayes files, and > the AWL, as any sane person would expect. Advice? Thanks, > > -Matt > > > --------------------- > Matthew Anderson > Executor > Internet Distributed Data Exchange - IDDX.NET > >
