>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 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 > restart sendmail. > > You should be able to run "man aliases" and get a description of how to > properly set up an alias to shell out to a program. Typically, it'd be > something like: > > somealias: |"/path/to/some/program -arg1 -arg2" > > HTH, > St-
Thanks, that definitely cleared up the initial mystery of what to do with the lines from the spamassassin man page. Am I correct that as per the aliases man page that the 'somealias' name must exist as a real user on the system, so that the 'getpwnam' call will work? I created a user and I run 'newaliases' as root after making chages to the /etc/aliases file. Using the syntax as per the spamassassin (v2.31) man page for my entry in my /etc/asliases file 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 at my machine bounces with the message 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 possible to create a user on the system for whitelisting and configure that user's .procmailrc and/or .forward file to update the auto-whitelist.db for the desired user? --Don ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
