On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:18:17PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:06:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > howdy folks. > > > <snip> > > > > 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. > > > > thanks > > > > A > > > > I run Sendmail and procmail, along with SpamAssassin. In > /etc/procmailrc I use: > > # Send through SpamAssassin > DROPPRIVS=yes > :0fw > * < 256000 > | /usr/bin/spamc yeah, I've seen this solution too, but I'm running SA through exim's ACL's and not through procmail. I leave it to my users to determine what they do with their spam, I just mark it up before delivery. A
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