Don Lindbergh said:
> I put the below lines in my $USER_HOME/.spamassassin/.spamassassin.cf file
> in an effort to force the use of the directory I want, however spamassassin
> as invoked by mail sent to the alias seemed to pay no attention to these
> instructions and continued to insist on using
>From: "Steve Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Don Lindbergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:48 PM
>Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Whitelisting with an alias
>
> As root, type:
>
> ln -s /path/t
>somealias: ""|/usr/bin/spamassassin -W""
>
> mail forwarded to this alias at my machine bounces with the message
>
>550 5.1.1 ""|/usr/bin/spamassassin -W""... User unknown
>
> If I use the sytax you suggest
>
>somealias: |"/usr/bin/spamassassin -W"
>
> mail forwarded to this alias
|smrsh: spamassassin not available for sendmail programs
|554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
|
| I'm guessing that maybe one must run spamd to whitelist with an alias
| because spamassassin called via the sendmil aliases mechanism can't run
| under the user id in this case?
| Would it be possib
>From: "Steve Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Don Lindbergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:06 PM
>Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Whitelisting with an alias
>
> The file you're looking for is e
The file you're looking for is either /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases.
It's a file that's associated with sendmail. Once you modify it, you need to
run the command 'newaliases' as the root user. That rebuilds the actual
aliases.db file which is what sendmail actually uses. You do not need to
res
