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Re: exim4-spamassassin individual user prefs



On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:55:58PM -0800, Jim Tyler wrote:
> > Doing it that way, spamassassin is using the user's 
> > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file -- but shouldn't
> > your setup via exim 
> > directly also be doing that?
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, since exim doesn't run as the
> individual users, neither would spamassassin when
> called by exim.  Spamassassin would, therefore, use
> prefs from /etc/spamassassin instead of
> ~/.spamassassin, or so I thought.

By default, this is true, but if you have exim call spamassassin (or
spamc) with the -u option, it'll use the prefs for the specified user.

Using -u $local_part will supply the username of the local user the mail
is being delivered to.

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