On Wednesday 24 September 2003 06:26 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> I think I'll answer myself.  Doing some digging about, I see that one
> likely needs to be part of the razor network to use razor filters in
> spamassassin...is this correct?  If so, it would appear an odd default
> setting to have it set to use razor checking when one must (apparently) go
> to some length to join the razor network.
>
> Am I offbase on this?

You don't really need to do too much to do razor checking, you need to do a 
bit more to actually submit checksums to the razor project for spams that are 
not already there.  I do the checking myself but don't have enough spams that 
get by the filters to bother with submitting the hash's to razor, although I 
do submit complaints to get the accounts used to spam shut down.

I think that the extent that you have to go through is to issue the command to 
create the account on razor and all it needs is an email address for that.  
However, I do know that it took me a little while to get razor working 
correctly.  I used to get the same error that you are getting when I used the 
spamd/spamc commands, but did not get it when I routed mail directly through 
spamassassin.  Eventually I figured out that you need to create and run spamd 
as root rather than as a user account because it looks for the razor account 
info in the home directory of the user account used to run spamd.  Or, I 
suppose you could configure it properly, I just never bothered with it since 
I don't mind spamd running as root.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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