On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:06:56PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2017/06/29 21:37, Fritjof Bornebusch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > security(8) iterates over /var/mail and check is the files belong to the
> > owner of the same name. So far so good, but spamd.conf.5 says:
> >
> > override:\
> > :white:\
> > :method=file:\
> > :file=/var/mail/override.txt:
> >
> > myblack:\
> > :black:\
> > :msg=/var/mail/myblackmsg.txt:\
> > :method=file:\
> > :file=/var/mail/myblack.txt:
> >
> > so the user *black.txt* and/or *override.txt* are assumed to exist
> > by security(8). As it says:
> >
> > Checking mailbox ownership.
> > user myblack.txt mailbox is owned by _spamd
> >
> > The following diff documents this in the manpage of spamd.conf(5) by
> > changing the path to /var/mail/_spamd/.
> >
> > I thought about changing security(8) to fix this, but _spamd is the name
> > of the user, so it does whats it's supposed to do.
>
> Wouldn't something like /etc/mail be better for these examples?
>
> It seems contradictory to hier(7) to have anything other than user mailboxes
> in /var/mail (even if it's just an example in the manual).
>
Good point.
Index: spamd.conf.5
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RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man5/spamd.conf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 spamd.conf.5
--- spamd.conf.5 16 Mar 2017 15:09:32 -0000 1.19
+++ spamd.conf.5 29 Jun 2017 21:24:02 -0000
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ nixspam:\e
override:\e
:white:\e
:method=file:\e
- :file=/var/mail/override.txt:
+ :file=/etc/mail/override.txt:
myblack:\e
:black:\e
- :msg=/var/mail/myblackmsg.txt:\e
+ :msg=/etc/mail/myblackmsg.txt:\e
:method=file:\e
- :file=/var/mail/myblack.txt:
+ :file=/etc/mail/myblack.txt:
.Ed
.Pp
The default configuration file must include the entry
