I’m running spamassassin (SA) 3.4, postfix 3.9.0-1, and dovecot 2.2.36-8 on a
linux server. I have some questions about SA that I can’t seem to find answers
for on the web.
The SA conf files are /etc/mail/spamassassin. The bayes files are in
/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.
I’m running spamd as the content_filter in postfix. spamassassin unix - n
n - - pipe
user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender}
${recipient}
Everything is working as expected, but I have some questions about permissions.
Should spamd be the owner of /etc/mail/spamassassin? Of
/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin?
Today I got a warning about the unsafe perms on sa-update-keys. Who should own
those and what should the perms be?
Finally, I’m seeing this in my maillogs.
config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf":
bayes_
This is the config in local.cf:
bayes_path /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes
This is the contents of the bayes folder:
# ls -lsah /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/
total 632K
0 drwxrwxr-x 2 spamd spamd 63 Jun 20 11:36 .
0 drwxrwxr-x 3 spamd spamd 19 Jun 13 06:00 ..
96K -rw------- 1 spamd spamd 95K Jun 20 14:44 bayes_journal
12K -rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd spamd 12K Jun 20 11:32 bayes_seen
524K -rwxrwxrwx 1 spamd spamd 664K Jun 20 11:32 bayes_toks
spamd owns the directory /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin and all
subdirectories. The perms are 775 for the directories and 777 for all files.
(I did this for testing purposes. They normally would be 755 and 644.)
Spam that are not caught by SA are moved to my junk folder, and I croned a
script that parses those and feeds them into bayes_seen. That script is
working, and the bayes_seen file is being updated. (I checked the timestamp on
the file after running the script manually.)
I can’t make sense out of this error message. What am I missing?
Paul Schmehl
paul.schm...@gmail.com
