Inconsistent SpamAssassin report

[Diederik van den Burger]

MailScanner is running as the postfix user. If I run the spamassassin command as root I do not see any errors. Is there any way to see logs on the spamassassin command as MailScanner runs it?

And indeed I have not mentioned my OS yet. I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1. While I respect your advise on using CentOS, I am willing to try and debug this first. As MailScanner lists Ubuntu as supported, I believe it should work. If I really cannot figure it out I will think of switching to CentOS.

Thanks though ;).



> On 07 Feb 2017, at 19:11, Peter Lemieux <mailscanner at replies.cyways.com> wrote:
> 
> On most implementations only root will have access to /root/.spamassassin since /root usually has 700 permissions or more limited ones.
> 
> Is MailScanner running as the postfix user or as root?  If the latter, those permission errors shouldn't arise during scans run from MailScanner.
> 
> What happens if you run your tests as root?
> 
> Did I miss it, or did you not identify which platform you're running MailScanner on?  I stick with CentOS for servers.  In my experience MailScanner has installed and run flawlessly on that distribution for years.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On 02/07/2017 12:54 PM, Diederik van den Burger wrote:
>> Thanks for your help by the way. When I run the following command:
>> 
>> spamassassin -t -d -C /etc/MailScanner/spamassassin.conf < spamemail
>> or even
>> sudo su postfix -p -c "spamassassin -t -d -C
>> /etc/MailScanner/spamassassin.conf < spamemail"
>> 
>> I still get the following warnings:
>> 
>> Feb  7 17:52:36.156 [4359] warn: config: path "/root/.spamassassin" is
>> inaccessible: Permission denied
>> Feb  7 17:52:36.157 [4359] warn: config: path
>> "/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs" is inaccessible: Permission denied
>> Feb  7 17:52:36.157 [4359] warn: config: default user preference file
>> /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs not accessible: Permission denied
>> 
>> And furthermore, I also don't get a spam report anymore. It says:
>> "(no report template found)"
>> Is this expected behaviour?
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Diederik
> 
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