Ah! I see… that makes sense.. but spamc reads one mail at a time, is there way (other than writing a script) to have it read a folder full of emails?
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Benny Pedersen <m...@junc.eu> wrote: > > Axb skrev den 2015-11-02 16:42: >> On 11/02/2015 04:38 PM, Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: >>> Well… I’m glad I’m on this mailing list :P >>> I did the same thing, running sa-learn —spam /spamfolder as root, and >>> was pondering this very issue. >>> I understand the logic behind why it shouldn’t be run as root, the >>> problem is on FC 22 the spamd user has /sbin/nologin as the shell in >>> /etc/passwd. Which means in order to run the process as spamd one has >>> to manual change that to /bin/bash, then, change it back >>> (/sbin/nologin it self is a security precaution), once the process is >>> complete. > > no you should use spamc not sa-learn > >>> This seems convoluted. >>> I know sa-learn has -u option but that simply changes the user name >>> in the environment (does not sudo), is there a better way to do this? >>> Have i missed something? > > sa-learn is using user-prefs, also for root if it exists, search for it in > $HOME > >>> Shawn >> Assuming you're using file based Bayes DB >> in local.cf add: >> bayes_path /path_to/bayes/bayes >> then you can learn as root . >> h2h > > for global bayes yes, but for non global bayes its better in user_prefs file > > and why did he change spamd login permisson when using sa-learn :( > > use spamc, not spamd if spamc is not used > > on does not need to login to apache for see a homepage, same goes for spamd, > it is using port 783 so it need to be started as root, but the real work will > happend as the user calling spamc
