I think I found my problem. In doing more poking around, I suddenly realized that although the bayes db wasn't updating immediately, at least it was updating when regular spams got filtered. However, the autowhitelist files still bore the same datestamp as when I first set up the spamtrap. So I did a quick search to see if there were any auto-whitelist files ANYWHERE on my system getting updated. All I found were files in each user directory that were also dated when I set up the spamtrap.
In the documentation I followed, at: http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting One is told to do the following to set up the shared database: adduser sharedspam mkdir /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/ chmod 755 /home/sharedspam chmod 777 /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/ #There's probably a safer way to do this. touch /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/user_prefs chmod 644 /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/user_prefs touch /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist chmod 666 /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist The problem lies in the last two lines - it says to set up the file auto-whitelist and chmod it 666. However, the files that actually get created and used are auto-whitelist.pag and auto-whitelist.dir . When those files got created automatically by spamassassin (since I didn't create them), their permissions were set to -rw------- automatically, and had made them owned by spamtrap since that user created them, instead of the sharedspam user that they should have been. I noticed the owner problem initially and chowned the files, but didn't think about the permissions. Go figure, something that obvious. So, tonight I did a chmod 666 on the files, and BAM, they now get written to when i send a message to the spamtrap user, and also are getting updated again when other users process spam. I shall make a recommendation to the author of that documentation (which otherwise is very fine documentation) for an update to his site.... Thanks again for the help... regards, Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:23 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Re: Is my spamtrap working? > Paul Fielding wrote: > > However, when I look at the datestamp on the files in the .spamassassin > > directory before and after processing the spam or ham, the datestamps haven't > > changed. I can see that the database is getting use - whenever I check the > > datestamp it has been quite recently updated, usually within the last 5 or 10 > > minutes (it's a low volume server), but it doesn't change immediately when I > > process mail through the spamtrap or hamtrap. > > > > Should it be? I'm only concerned that they're not actually doing anything... > > *shrug* > > Looks like that spamassassin -r -a -d call ought to include some > facility for removing the SA mark-up resulting from the bouncing user's > initial scan -- assuming it has not already been removed. So something > like: > > spamassassin -d|spamassassin -r -a -d > > Also, for testing at least, try removing that last -d option which will > give more debug output instead of just outputing the final, unmarked > mail. > > Bryan > > > regards, > > > > Paul > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > > -- > The trick is to fall and miss the ground. This happens only when someone > falls and becomes so preoccupied with something else that they forget > that they are falling, and therefore are no longer doing it. Flying is > just a permanent state of falling, minus the hitting the ground part. - > Douglas Adams > > http://www.wecs.com/content.htm > > This signature file is generated by Pick-a-Tag ! > Written by Jeroen van Vaarsel > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pick-a-tag > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
