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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>
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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>
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OR is the best way to uninstall the rpm, and to install using CPAN?<BR>
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Thanks for all the help!<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
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James Golden<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 00:06 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
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<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>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Julian Field</FONT>
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