Problems with some 'add-on' apps...

[Glenn Steen]

On 06/02/07, am.lists <am.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK... Thanks for the tip to su as postfix...
>
> I think I figured it out... I was led down the path of why it would
> work for root and not for postfix.
>
> I started looking at things such as file ownership and file mode. I
> was looking at things that were updated when I ran them as root...
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/FuzzyOcr.db (and associated lock files) tend to
> be updated each time root successfully scans a message, but the files
> were owned root:root, and mode 755. That meant the user postfix would
> be able to scan against the hash table but not update it. (For what
> its worth, with verbosity turned up, FuzzyOcr did not complain about
> the permissions issue, it just died.)
>
> I fixed that issue, and am now seeing Fuzzy OCR hits when testing as
> user postfix.
>
> I will let some real messages come through over the lunch hour, but I
> bet this will fix my image spam... at least for today :)
>
> Thanks to Glenn and Ian for your leadership and pointing me in the
> right direction.
You're wellcome.
When you've convinced yourself everything is working OK, remember to
turn that setting down to 10 again for FuzzyOCR... Pointless to waste
the resources on things already determined to be spam:-).
Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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