So this is the case. When spamassassin is run as root, the message gets a
high score, but when sudo'd as the postfix user, it gets a significantly
lower score, and two error messages about not being able to write to
/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs.
How do I stop spamassassin from looking in here for this (vital?) config,
and furthermore, where do I migrate the config in /root/.spamassassin to, to
enable this (good?) config to work all the time.


Cheers.
K


kiwidesign wrote:
> 
> Ah, hadn't thought of this. If this is the case, how do I migrate the
> config for the user that I am logged in as (and getting the correct score)
> to the user that spamassassin runs as? I get a little lost with conf
> hidden in the home directories and more global locations.
> 
> I'll try this now anyway
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> Michał Jęczalik-2 wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, kiwidesign wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> I think you may misunderstand.
>>>
>>> We have a certain email, that is spam. Lets call it 'A'.
>>>
>>> When the email A passes through the mail system, it is grabbed by
>>> MailScanner, which in turn puts it through SpamAssassin. The mail is
>>> then
>>> delivered if the score is less than the threshhold (5), otherwise
>>> quarantined. In our situation, the email 'A' has made it into our inbox,
>>> with a score of 1 (which is indeed less than 5). However, if from the
>>> console we run a manual spamassassin test (spamassassin -t < A) on the
>>> 'A'
>>> email, then spamassassin returns a score of 23, which is somewhat higher
>>> (and more correct given the content of the email) than the original
>>> score of
>>> 1.
>> 
>> There are several possibilities:
>> 
>> 1. the user running spamassassin/spamc from your mail system has a 
>> per-user config that alters the final score
>> 2. this user has no permissions to system's rules directory or files
>> 
>> Try running spamassassin -t with this user's permissions. Probably you'll 
>> get a low score.
>> -- 
>> Michał Jęczalik, +48.603.64.62.97
>> INFONAUTIC, +48.33.487.69.04
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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