Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a spamassassin gateway machine, and I'm a bit confused > on how to set up the machine so users can have their own user_prefs files. > * The machine has no local users at all > [ deletia ] > Will spamd create the directory for each user? Where does it find the > user information? Will it just pull from the to:<> field?
If your SA scanning is happening at SMTP-transaction time, not just before final delivery, there is no reliable way to do per-user prefs. Neither the SMTP envelope nor the headers of the mail itself have enough information to determine who the end-user is; think about when (in the course of delivering a given email) alias expansion happens relative to your SA/virus scan. It's an unfortunate consequence of running SA sitewide; the downside can be greatly mitigated with a spamtrap address for Bayes training, reasonable threshold defaults, and user education (ie. show them how to whitelist spam-ish newsletters that they actually want in their clients) -- Eric Sorenson - Systems / Network Administrator, MIS - Transmeta Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- 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
