per_user prefs not working ?

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Stuart,

This doesn't work as you expect because MailScanner runs as a daemon under
the account specified by 'Run As User/Run As Group' settings in
MailScanner.conf (default=root) so will pick-up the home directory set-up
for that account (~/.spamassassin/ is the default).

I'm not sure that the Advanced SpamAssassin Settings are able to handle a
ruleset as I've never tried this (and don't plan to) - but you *might* be
able to do this to get it to work as you want:

E.g.

SpamAssassin User State Dir = /etc/MailScanner/rules/sa_prefs.rules

Which contains:

FromOrTo:       your at e-mail.address.here        /home/test/.spamassassin/
FromOrTo:       default                         /root/.spamassassin/

You'll soon know if this value isn't able to handle a ruleset as MailScanner
should complain on start if not.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Steve.

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Steve Freegard
Systems Manager
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Clark [mailto:newsgroup2 at SPACELINK.COM.AU]
Sent: 08 December 2003 14:43
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: per_user prefs not working ?


Hi

I am trying to get the per_user preferences working

I set SpamAssassin User State Dir = ~/.spamassassin/
in /etc/MailScanner.conf

I then created a  .spamassassin directory in my home dir

I then create a file user_prefs in this directory

inside the user_prefs file i put  required_hits  10

i then chown and chmod accordingly

Restart MailScanner and send a test spam.

The headers still tell me it is working on a required hits of 5

What am i doing wrong?

Regards

Stuart Clark RHCE
Spacelink Communications Pty Ltd

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