oh yeah, and this in my main log when the mailbox is accessed:
Mar 28 22:58:55 bacon imapd[8163]: Fatal mailbox error user={user_name}
host={a_host} [{an_ip}] mbx=/var/spool/mail/{user_name}: Unexpected changes to
mailbox (try restarting): Return-Path: <MAILER
Jeffrey J. Bacon wrote:
> I have:
>
> VERBOSE=yes
> LOGABSTRACT=all
> LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail/procmaillog.`date +%m-%d-%y`
> :0fw
> | spamc -u $LOGNAME
>
> in my /etc/procmailrc file and then this in my main procmail log:
>
> procmail: Executing "spamc,-u,{user_name}"
> procmail: [8286] Thu Mar 28 22:58:05 2002
> procmail: Assigning
>
>"PATH=/home/{user_name}/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
>
>
> Subject: *****SPAM***** Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
> Folder:
> /var/spool/mail/{user_name} 28719
>
> however, the mail is not actually delivered to {user_name}.
>
> Olivier Nicole wrote:
>
>> For all debugging purposes, I suggest one runs spamd without the -d,
>> and maybe with -D to see debug information onf screen.
>>
>> The running as root message is just a warning, not an error, and
>> should not prevent spamc/d to tag the message (it can prevent it to
>> create user preferences, for that purooise I use -u $LOGNAME on the
>> spamc line).
>>
>> Here is my /etc/procmailrc (site wide):
>>
>> :0fwE
>> | /usr/local/bin/spamc -u $LOGNAME
>>
>> :0e
>> {
>> EXITCODE=$?
>> }
>>
>> DATE=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`
>> PID=`echo $$`
>> SPAMFILE=$DEFAULT-spam.$DATE.$PID
>>
>> :0:
>> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
>> $SPAMFILE
>>
>> Only diffreence from the man is that it push the spam into
>> /var/mail/<username>-spam.<date><pid>
>>
>> This is because I quarantine spam and deliver a daily summary to
>> users, allowing them to automatically recover false +ve.
>>
>> And I run spamd as /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/spamd -a -c -d
>>
>> I also remember reading that the upgrade from 2.01 to 2.11 erased some
>> SA site config files (or they changed name).
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'll throw my 2-cents in and let y'all know I have the same problem
>>>
>>> Gene Ruebsamen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> when I run spamc < sample-spam.txt > spam.out
>>>>>> spamc seems to work; however, when I receive an incoming mail
>>>>>> message, I
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> get
>>>>>
>>>>> Does it work or not? Do you get a SA header in the output?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Running spamc < sample-spam.txt > spam.out
>>>> as a non-root user works fine. I see the SA header in the output.
>>>> I also see a message in the maillog file indicating the message was
>>>> spam.
>>>> However, when procmail calls spamc, things do not work, and I get
>>>> the messages in my maillog file that I posted earlier.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> the same error in the maillog:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mar 27 16:55:05 mail spamd[2590]: connection from
>>>>>> sandman.realtyroad.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 127.0.0.1 ] at port 2017
>>>>>> Mar 27 16:55:05 mail spamd[6207]: Still running as root: user not
>>>>>> specified, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And no, the mail is not being sent to (or from) the root user.
>>>>>> Why would
>>>>>> running spamc (as non root) work; yet, when receiving an e-mail
>>>>>> not work?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Means that spamc hands the message out to spamd. And that spamd is
>>>>> running as root (well you did not change spamd to run as non-root). So
>>>>> both messages are not errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now how do you call spamc from procmail?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :0fw
>>>> | spamc
>>>>
>>>> as stated in the www.spamassassin.org/sitewide.html file.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Olivier
>>>>>
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