Debian Sarge, MailScanner, Exim, Spamassassin

[Martin Hepworth]

Dawson, Alan wrote:
> Hi,  I'm in the process of setting up a MailScanning gateway using Debian Sarge, MailScanner, Exim, ClamAV and Spamassassin.
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> Exim runs as user Debian-exim  and group Debian-exim so I altered the Run As Group and Run as User to those also.
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> SpamAssassin User State Dir = 
> To be /home/Debian-exim/ ( or similar writeable location by Debian-exim )so that SpamAssassin can place its bayesian and auto whitelist stuff etc somewhere ?
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> Thanks
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> Alan Dawson
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Alan

in a word yes, also make sure you're running eximv4 and not the default 
V3 (you'll need to find this in the testing repository I think). There's 
an entire debian-exim maillist that you might to get onto in order to 
help you get the eximv4 working before you pop anything else into the mix.

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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