Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 January 2002 7:13 am, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Friday 18 January 2002 1:04 am, dman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:27:36PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > ... > > > | # This transport does a spam check to look for spam and then >

Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 January 2002 1:04 am, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:27:36PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > | # This transport does a spam check to look for spam and then re-injects > | # the message into exim > | > | command = spamc |

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread Rupa Schomaker
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think a command line option should be available to say "don't create > a prefs file". That should be the user's job anyways. Uhh, use the spamd/spamc combination. Then edit the /etc/default/spamassassin file. Remove the -c option from OPTIONS and you won't h

Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:27:36PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Wednesday 16 January 2002 2:33 am, dman wrote: | > I'm now trying to set up spamassassin on my system, but am running | > into some hurdles. I use exim as my MTA, so I'm following the guides | > at | > http://bogmog.sourceforg

Re: [Exim] Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:52:40PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: | On Wed 16 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: | > | > sounds like (a) exim does it just like postfix. maybe they document it | > more sophisticatedly, (b) you doubling the load unnecessarily, and (c) | > you are asking for trouble. why

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:30:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1704 +0100]: | > Exim doesn't run pipe commands immediately like procmail does (with | > 'f' flag). It schedules the command to be run later, and later | > (during the actual deliver

Re: setting up spamassassin (alternative)

2002-01-17 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 January 2002 2:33 am, dman wrote: > I'm now trying to set up spamassassin on my system, but am running > into some hurdles. I use exim as my MTA, so I'm following the guides > at > http://bogmog.sourceforge.net/document_show.php3?d

Re: [Exim] Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 16 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > > sounds like (a) exim does it just like postfix. maybe they document it > more sophisticatedly, (b) you doubling the load unnecessarily, and (c) > you are asking for trouble. why not let procmail be MDA? procmail is in no way light-weight; I'd hesitat

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.1704 +0100]: > Exim doesn't run pipe commands immediately like procmail does (with > 'f' flag). It schedules the command to be run later, and later > (during the actual delivery) it runs the command. Thus the command > _must_ deliver the message to

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-16 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:35:05PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0507 +0100]: | > | does exim already have the recipient user by the time the filter is | > called? | > | > It does, and I _could_ run the script as the user. The problem there | > i

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0507 +0100]: > | does exim already have the recipient user by the time the filter is > called? > > It does, and I _could_ run the script as the user. The problem there > is only "privileged" (in exim's eyes) users are allowed to set the > received_

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:47:14AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0333 +0100]: | > 1) Why is spamassassin trying to create a preferences file in /? | | $HOME isn't set in the script. Good point. If I set HOME=/tmp in the script, then spamas

Re: setting up spamassassin

2002-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.16.0333 +0100]: > 1) Why is spamassassin trying to create a preferences file in /? $HOME isn't set in the script. does exim already have the recipient user by the time the filter is called? > 2) How can users have their own preferences files? It do