On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:25 -0700, RinkWorks wrote: > Basically, I discovered that Spam Assassin wasn't paying attention to the > whitelist_from statements in my user_prefs file. So I wondered if it was > using a different .spamassassin directory somewhere. Sure enough, there's a > /var/spool/exim4/.spamassassin directory. The reason why Bayesian filtering > wasn't working, then suddenly kicked in, is because *THAT* director's > bayesian filtering database hadn't gotten enough hams and spams yet, but > eventually it autolearned enough of both to kick in. > > That directory is owned by the "Debian-exim4" user, which is the user that > owns the exim4 daemon process. However, the "spamd" processes are running > as root.
Sounds like the default installation of OS X Server. For that the fix is deleting one of the directories and putting in a link to the other one. Crude, but it works. -- Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc. Los Gatos, California, USA, www.interstellar.com tel: +1.408.356.3886, USA: 866-356-3886, Skype: jerrydurand
