spamassassin with mailscanner

[Dragon Slayr]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 15 June 2010 16:38, Dragon Slayr <dragonslayr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Run this line, with every spamassissin command
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>> -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
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>> 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*"
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>> 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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> you shouldn't need the -p anymore. Mailscanner now inserts a
> mailscanner.cf with a correct sym link back to
> /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf .....unless of course you're
> running a really really old MS.
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> make sure you do the sa-learns as the postfix account and you'll won't get
> SA messing with the perms of the bayes.
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How odd..  I do not seem to have a "mailscanner.cf" on the system. I am
running version Installed: 4.79.11-2 obtained from here.
http://debian.intergenia.de/debian/pool/main/m/mailscanner/mailscanner_4.79.11-2_all.deb
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