Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:46 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 2010-03-04 08:15, Camaleón wrote:

>> Mmmm, what MTA/POP3/IMAP design are you using?
> 
> fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop
> 
> $ grep spam /etc/postfix/master.cf
> smtp      inet  n   -   n   -   -   \
>                    smtpd -o content_filter=spamfilter:
> spamfilter unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rq user=spamfilter \
>                    argv=/usr/local/bin/spamfilter.sh \
>                    -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}

Mmmm... are you using spamd/spamc?

I ask because I think spamd/spamc can change its uid to read/write into 
the users folders but it seems you are invoking spamfilter as user 
"spamfilter" and maybe that user has not the rights to read the users 
config files :-?

>>  Are your pop3/imap users
>> same as system users or you are storing users in a separate db place
>> (mysql table, sasl2...)?
>> 
>> 
> System users.  There's just 4 of us, and each user has a crontab entry
> which calls fetchmail every 5-6 minutes.  (I'm sure that's different
> from how most people do it, but it works for us...)

Try by running "spamassassin -D --lint" and watch the "config: read file" 
output lines.

Look, when I run "spamassassin -D --lint" as the user calling spamd 
(sm02) I get:

***
[8059] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/65_debian.cf
[8059] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
[8059] dbg: config: using "/home/sm02/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user 
prefs file
***

But when runned as "root" I get:

***
[8066] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/65_debian.cf
[8066] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
***

It cannot read the user's config file.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón