spamassassin and sendmail

[Drew Marshall]

    [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Craig White said:
> I'm confused - when I look at the output of
>
> /var/log/maillog shows...
>
> May 16 08:49:47 linserv2 spamd[5036]: Creating default_prefs
> [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs]
> May 16 08:49:47 linserv2 spamd[5036]: Cannot write
> to /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs: Permission denied
> May 16 08:49:47 linserv2 spamd[5036]: Couldn't create readable
> default_prefs for [/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs]

You don't need spamd so turn it off and save a few cycles. However, run
spamassassin --lint -D as the user your MTA runs as (root, I think you
said) and look for errors. That will tell you about any problems
MailScanner will see.

Drew


--
In line with our policy, this message has
been scanned for viruses and dangerous
content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
www.themarshalls.co.uk/policy

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!