On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:53 +0200, Johannes Bauer wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to use the Dovecot antispam plugin to train SpamAssassin via > sa-learn. I compiled the plugin and got it to work with the sendmail > backend, which I tested by having it send a message to me. > > As I'm calling SpamAssassin with amavisd-new, I have a system-wide Bayes > db, maintained by the amavis user. As expected, the antispam plugin calls > the configured binary as the mail user (I'm running deliver as suid, with > mixed virtual and system accounts). > > My question is: How can I get the plugin to call sa-learn as user amavis? > > I have tried the following things: > (1) making the amavis user's .spamassassin directory to world-writeable > and handing the path to sa-learn with the --dbpath parameter. That failed > - the IMAP client says "Move not allowed" when I try to move a message to > or from the Spam IMAP folder. > > (2) making a suid copy of sa-learn with owner amavis. This failed because > of an sperl error. > > (3) editing sudoers to allow 'sudo -u amavis sa-learn' without a password. > This works fine on the command line, but fails with the same error as (1) > when used with the plugin.
I have no idea. Try maybe writing a small C wrapper that checks the arguments. Also check what user your imap is running under, normally it would be the user who logged in unless those are virtual. johannes
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