On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:31:31PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:24 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > howdy folks. > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its > > > > uid to 'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a > > > > problem as it tries to update the AWL and bayes database files in > > > > its $HOME with is nonexistent. One recommendation I found was to > > > > change the user for spamd from nobody to spamd, and create that > > > > user for just this purpose. This seems fine, but I don't like to > > > > migrate too far from default configs. Any other suggestions? is > > > > there something simple I'm missing here? (probably). is this new > > > > user, spamd, the way to go or should I be tweaking some other conf > > > > to make this work. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > A > > > > > > > > > > I run Sendmail and procmail, along with SpamAssassin. In > > > /etc/procmailrc I use: > > > > > > # Send through SpamAssassin > > > DROPPRIVS=yes > > > :0fw > > > * < 256000 > > > | /usr/bin/spamc > > > > yeah, I've seen this solution too, but I'm running SA through exim's > > ACL's and not through procmail. I leave it to my users to determine > > what they do with their spam, I just mark it up before delivery. > > I am running SA using SA-Exim at SMTP time. This then rejects the mail > before it is accepted, if it doesn't do RFC822 properly. > > Yeah, I know this is against the RFC, but it has reduced the processing > on my machine by magnitudes. If they really want to send it to me, > they'll do it the right way.
nice! A
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