spamassassin with mailscanner

[Martin Hepworth]

On 15 June 2010 06:19, Dragon Slayr <dragonslayr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just built a box with Ubuntu Lucid. Everything now now going great in
> testing.
> However, I attempted to import my old spamassassin database as root with
> this command.
> sa-learn -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --restore
> sa_bayes_backup.txt
>
> That gave me a nice database in the /root directory. :(
>
> So, I thought I'd better ask. Should I run this as the postfix user like
> this?
> sa-learn -u postfix -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --restore
> sa_bayes_backup.txt
>
> Also, now when I do sudo -u postfix spamassassin --lint -D, I get
> permission errors attempting to read root..   <Sigh...>
>
> As you can see, I'm a bit confused. For a last question, can change things
> so spamassassin just keeps a global database and forget all this user
> stuff?  It's a incoming mail server only. There are no local users.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
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> Hi

you need to make sure that the bayes files are pointing at the correct place
in the mailscanner.conf for the user you are running mailscanner as, and
also of course make sure the permissions on the bayes dir/files are good for
the 'run as' user.


-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK
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