Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems
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.
--Mike Bird
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