Tinni wrote: > Here my qs. is when a mail is coming to the server , suppose, for > *user2* or many others, will the spamassassin check the mails for > ham/spam with the *default* database which is bydefault set to > *user1* ? or it will check only for the mails of *user1* ? I am > little bit confused here.
I don't have your original message, but IIRC you said you're calling SpamAssassin from procmail. This implies that you're doing so just before the message is put into a mail folder (whether that's the inbox for a user or elsewhere is determined by procmail). On most mail systems, this *also* means that mail processing is done one message at a time, for one recipient at a time. As I said in my first reply, if you want a single global Bayes database you **MUST** at the very minimum put a bayes_path statement in one of your local configuration files - local.cf is most commonly used. When a message is processed by SA, with that bayes_path statement in place, *ALL* Bayes activity is done on that global database. > As i understand that individual users_prefs will supercede the > value of the global parameter settings. For certain settings, yes. See the man page for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf for the details on which ones. > So does this concept is for bayes database also? IIRC, no; bayes* options are considered "priviledged" settings. Check the man page on your installed SpamAssassin copy to be certain for your usage. > If yes, then the bayes default databaes whatever learned (spam + ham) > for default user *user1* will not work for the other users - is this > so? Assuming that bayes* options are not priviledged, then yes, any user could stick in a bayes_path statement and avoid the global database. Otherwise, all users will refer to the global database. > I want simply that the default path where i am seeing spamassassin > is updatijng/working will be applicable for all the users. Please see the suggestions at the bottom of my first reply, and refer to the man page to make sure you have the settings laid out correctly for your installed version of SA. Those settings have been working on one of my systems for several years now. -kgd -- Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been!
