per_user prefs not working ?

[Michael Baird]

Ok, I looked in the rulesets, still not sure, how to go about it, can
you give me an example, of what needs to be set in MailScanner and a
default ruleset (I read on the list it doesn't work, so I stopped
trying). I imagine the ruleset would look like

To: test at domain.com     /home/users/test/.spamassassin/user_prefs
FromOrTo:       default /etc/MailScanner/user_prefs

In MailScanner.conf I would point SpamAssassin Prefs File to this
ruleset? What about Spamassassin User State Dir, I have that set to
nothing, should the ruleset go here? Should this look up each
individual's ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs by default? If there is an easy
way to do this I'd prefer it.

Regards
MIKE


> You can do all the user_prefs mentioned below in MailScanner rulesets. No
> need for procmail hacks.
> See /etc/MailScanner/rules/*
>
> At 15:15 08/12/2003, you wrote:
> >MailScanner won't use per user spamassassin preferences, it uses the
> >prefs file specified in MailScanner.conf for all users or
> >/root/.spamassassin, since MailScanner runs as root. I faced this issue
> >myself when I migrated my spam scanning to MailScanner, my solution was
> >to create a procmail ruleset, which duplicates all my users individual
> >spamassassin user_prefs behaviors (hit threshold, spam tag, whitelist,
> >blacklist). I just have MailScanner check the spamlevel and such. I'll
> >post the recipe here (I'm still working on making the
> >whitelist/blacklist work better). Scanning all messages through
> >MailScanner and filtering via a procmail ruleset, has lowered my load
> >averages tremendously, as opposed to calling spamc via a procmail
> >ruleset.
> >
> >
> >INCLUDERC=$HOME/.procmail/.spamprefs
> >WHITELIST=$HOME/.procmail/.whitelist
> >BLACKLIST=$HOME/.procmail/.blacklist
> >
> >:0
> >* < 20000
> >{
> >         :0
> >         * ?egrep --silent --file $WHITELIST
> >         $DEFAULT
> >         :0
> >         * ?egrep --silent --file $BLACKLIST
> >         /dev/null
> >         :0
> >         *$ ^X-TC3Net-Level: $SPAMLEVEL
> >         {
> >                 :0
> >                 * ^Subject:[    ]*\/[^  ].*
> >                 {
> >                         SUBJECT=$MATCH
> >                 }
> >                 :0 fw
> >                 | formail -I "Subject: $SPAMTAG $SUBJECT"
> >                 :0
> >                 $SPAMBOX
> >         }
> >}
> >
> >Where .whitelist and .blacklist are just list of email addresses, and
> >.spamprefs contains a few variable definitions used in the recipe.
> >
> >SPAMLEVEL=xxxxxxxxxx
> >SPAMTAG=*****SPAM*****
> >SPAMBOX=.maildir/
> >
> >Regards
> >MIKE
> >
> > > 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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