<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 25 Jul 2006, at 16:22, Golden, James wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> It looks like it was installed by the rpm. Which according to the documentation is not the recommended way. I have 2 questions then:<BR> <BR> Can this be corrected so it doesn't use spamd, if so where can I start looking for a complete answer on how to do it?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Uninstall the RPM of it, and then use my easy-to-install package of ClamAV+SpamAssassin on the MailScanner downloads page. That will not only build it safely from source for you, but it will do a whole host of setup things for SpamAssassin and ClamAV and tell you what you still need to do yourself (there's one bit my script can't do for legal reasons).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Building it from source gives the same result as using CPAN, but using my package takes care of all the required modules to make it all work together properly, which saves lots of headaches.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BR> OR is the best way to uninstall the rpm, and to install using CPAN?<BR> <BR> Thanks for all the help!<BR> <BR> Sincerely,<BR> <BR> James Golden<BR> <BR> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 00:06 +0100, Julian Field wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE type="CITE"> <PRE><FONT color="#000000">Golden, James wrote:</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> I am having some trouble understanding something. I have been having an </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> issue with AWL. I have been trying to reset an individual email's score </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> and it doesn't seem to work. In my research I discovered that </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> MailScanner with sendmail is supposed to run as root (according to the </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> book). It also seems that Spamassassin is running as root as well. On </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> top of that spamassassin seems to be invoked as spamd.</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">MailScanner does not use spamd. It calls it directly through its Perl </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">libraries (more direct, more efficient, does not rely on spamd not </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">falling over).</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> I emailed this </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> to the Spamassassin mailing list and someone suggested that I Post it </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> here. Is this configuration correct. Should spamd be running as root.</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> If that is the way it is supposed to run, why might I not be able to run </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> this command as root and have it work:</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> spamassassin <A href="mailto:--remove-addr-from-whitelist=joe@somwhere.com">--remove-addr-from-whitelist=joe@somwhere.com</A> </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> <mailto:<A href="mailto:joe@somwhere.com">joe@somwhere.com</A>></FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> Any help would be greatly appreciated.</FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">I don't know the exact syntax for the spamassassin script, but the basic </FONT>
<FONT color="#000000">idea should be okay.</FONT>
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