Problems with users rules

[Royer Christophe]

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Peter Bonivart wrote:

> Royer Christophe wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> I'm trying to use MS/SA and I would like to do the following thing, I've
>> looked on FAQ and MAQ, but I didn't find the tips, maybe someone can
>> help me.
>>
>> Some users want to remove ack message from their mails before
>> downloading the mails, so I've created for this users the following
>> rules in /home/nameofuser/.spamassassin/user_prefs
>>
>> header CONTAIN_ACK Subject =~ /ack:/i
>> score CONTAIN_ACK 99.0
>> body CONTAIN_RECEIPT /Receipt/i
>> score CONTAIN_RECEIPT 99.0
>>
>> and in /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf, I've said
>> allow_user_rules 1
>>
>> So, the problem is the following, when I'm running MS, it doesn't take
>> care about user rules.
>
>
> SA is run as one user, normally root, by MS. You can't map unix users to
>  mail recipients using MS. I suggest you use procmail or similar.
>
> --
> /Peter Bonivart
>
Oki doki, I've found something about this somewhere, so if I'm make a
.procmailrc file in home users directory with something like |
/usr/bin/spamassassin, it seems then SA is running after MS. and at end,
I cannot delete the ack mails like I should

Many thanks

Christophe

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