Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
On Monday 29 January 2007 17:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
As I understand it, and frmo a little google, spamd changes its uid to
'nobody' when it get a message to scan. This causes a problem as it
tries to update the AWL and bayes database files in its $HOME with is
nonexistent. One recommendation I found was to change the user for
spamd from nobody to spamd, and create that user for just this
purpose. This seems fine, but I don't like to migrate too far from
default configs. Any other suggestions? is there something simple I'm
missing here? (probably). is this new user, spamd, the way to go or
should I be tweaking some other conf to make this work.

Hi Andrew,

We run spamassassin out of procmail during delivery. This allows
each user to own and tweak their own spamfilter settings. We still
use smtpd_sender_restrictions etc in postfix to keep the worst of
the spam from entering the server (mostly based on lack of reverse
DNS) but we don't do content scanning or RBL lookups until
spamassassin runs out of procmail during local delivery.

this is essentially what raquel (?) suggested too. I may end up going
this route, but my new users are totally technically non-savvy. I'd
like to have their mail hit procmail having already been through SA
once. Then their local procmail rules only have to d one thing: file
it in spam or not. maybe I'm going about this the wrong way though. As
I said elsewhere, I'm using SA through exim's ACL's and it does work
great, but I'd like site-wide bayesian filtering to work as well, and
as far as I can tell, due to the errors I'm getting, its not.

still grepping docs ;)

A

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