spamassassin with mailscanner

[Dragon Slayr]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 15 June 2010 06:19, Dragon Slayr <dragonslayr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> That gave me a nice database in the /root directory. :(
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>> 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
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>> Also, now when I do sudo -u postfix spamassassin --lint -D, I get
>> permission errors attempting to read root..   <Sigh...>
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks in advance!
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>> Hi
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> 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.
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> Thank You! For googling sake, I'll post what I did.

Run this line, with every spamassissin command
-p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

Then, after learning, the permissions were messed up on the bayes files in
/var/lib/MailScanner. "As shown my MailScanner --lint
I changed them by doing "chown postfix:www-data bayes*"

Note, since I had deleted the /root/.spamassassin directory, to keep
spamassassin from barfing, I relearned one spam message as root.







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