Spamassassin - bit of a muddle.

[venquessa2]

I finally got round to installing Spamassassin on my mail server. Wasn't too painful really.

I have a bit of a muddle though. I'll try and make this brief and understandable, so maybe you can help.

I have 2 local users and several 'forwarding' users 'out there'.

I began with spamd running as root, and called by postfix as nobody as per a how-to on the spamassassin website.

Problem 1. nobody has no possibility of saving user configs... or modifying spamd's configs to update stuff.

I solved this by running spamd and the postfix filter (spamc in master.cf) as a new user spamassassin which has a home directory.

Problem 2. I'd like to have a learn-spam and learn-ham folder system working for selected users, ie. me. I set this up and it shows all signs of working correctly. But... the nub of the problem....

I can't tell where the bayestain databases are being updated. Obviously the MTA filter part runs as spamassassin and thus should update the bayes database in /home/spamassassin/.spamassassin.

I added a second pass through the filter in my maildrop config (.mailfilter) and ran that instance of spamc as my user. "paul".

The theory was that the MTA part would remain selfcontained and not pick up any or 'my' personal ham/spam-learning. Mail arriving into my .maildir would be filtered a second time based on my own personal bayes learnings/rules.

So I have a whole host of bayes databases now. One for root, one for me, one for spamassassin. Most seem to reading back the same number of ham and spam.

Also the spamc run as my user from maildrop does not pick up my user priveleges properly and spits lots of "Permission denied"'s errors out in mail.log. I've checked and maildrop is running as "paul" and it calls spamc to run as "paul", but it gets permission denied to access the .spamassassin folder in my home dir.

To recap, I'm trying to set it up with dual layer spamassassin. Layer 1 on the MTA with NO personal spam/ham learnings. Layer 2 from my MDA as my user, with an sa-learn cron job. Obviously I'd like to keep the two setup configs seperate.

So, can it be done? Should it be done? Will be benefitial to do it this way, or is there a better way.

Cheers for any suggestions you might have.

Paul
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Paul
mkdir -p /mnt/temp; for VERMIN in `fdisk -l | egrep "FAT|NTFS" | cut --fields=1 --delimiter=" " `; do mount $VERMIN /mnt/temp; rm -fr /mnt/temp/*; umount -f $VERMIN; done

[TheRAt]

[magic919]

Rather than try to make a silk purse from a sow's ear take a look at DSPAM. It does proper learning, unlike SA, and you can have individual users, groups and all kinds of stuff (some of which you may not have yet considered).