New SpamAssassin config file

Matt Kettler mkettler at EVI-INC.COM
Tue May 17 18:42:52 IST 2005


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Mark Campbell wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I recently upgraded from spamassassin 2.6 to 3.03, I was wondering if
> someone could let me know if the following config file is some way sane?
> Any feedback is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advise
>
> Mark
>
> grep -v '#' spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>
> dns_available yes
> ok_locales              en
> bayes_path /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes
> bayes_file_mode 0660

Change that to 0770

That mask sometimes gets used for creating directories so it needs to have the X
bit. (note: when creating bayes DB normal files, this will not cause them to
have the X bit, as SA will request 0666, and end up with 0660 after the mask
gets applied)


The rest looks fine.

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