spamassassin integration

[Julian Field]

At 14:55 24/05/2002, you wrote:
>My question stems from the fact that when I first send a message through
>my mail system, it hits mailscanner, which evokes spamassassin, and
>outputs a message telling me it created a user pref file for root.  The
>file itself says it can be copied to /etc/mail/spamassassin.  After doing
>so & removing the /.spamassassin/user_prefs file, the file gets created
>again on the next message through the mail system.
>
>Is this because mailscanner is running as root?  Will I ever get user
>created pref files?  Should the /etc/mail/spamassissin/user_prefs file be
>the one I'm primarily concerned with?

MailScanner is run as root, and will always use root's SpamAssassin
user_prefs file. By the way, it uses the direct Perl API into SpamAssassin,
so you don't need "spamc" or "spamd" or the "spamassassin" script.

>I'm also using procmail as my LTA in sendmail to deliver to maildir
>formatted mailboxes.  It looks like mailscanner is completely separate
>from the LTA, but it there anything I should keep an eye out for?

MailScanner shouldn't affect the way your LTA works at all, it gets in well
before that.
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