Mine was the original question, and I was able to get spamc / spamd to use individual ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs files. I think the only trick is to make sure you call spamc as the user who owns ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. I don't know enough about your setup to know if that is the case.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Scheidler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamd and user_prefs > "Mike" == Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike> > Mike> Using a milter, or amavisd-new (and, I believe, mailscanner, as > Mike> well) will not make use of the users' config files. > Mike> > Mike> The reason, if I recall, is that procmail runs under the userid for > Mike> whom mail is being delivered, thereby running spamc as the user in > Mike> question, while the milters and virus scanners are not capable of > Mike> running in such a fashion. > > Uh-oh. I have installed SA for site-wide filtering, with a milter as the > link between sendmail and spamd, and procmail as the LDA. Things work > great for the few accounts I'm testing it with. I was just starting to > implement a web interface to let users easily edit (or create) their own > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, but if what you say is true, I need to rethink > that whole phase of the project. > > I really need to let my users have some control over their filtering, > especially their whitelists. Will using a MySQL database to store user > preferences work with a milter-based setup? If so, are there other > advantages to using a database instead of user_prefs files? I don't really > want to go the database route, but will if there is enough reason to do so. > > Thanks, > > -- > Mike Scheidler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unix Administration & Server Operations/Kokomo Administration Team > Delphi Corporation PHONE: (765) 451-0319 > Kokomo, IN 46904-9005 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
