On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 06:58 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mark Sansome wrote: [Snip] > >So if the permissions are OK I need to look again at the original > >problem. > > > >On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:32 -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > >> -> Call spamc with the -u option and specify each destination user in a > >> separate recipe. You'll have to call SA for each destination user after > >> splitting off the mail stream for that user (instead of before as you're > >> probably doing now), but you should already have some pieces that do > >> that. This is probably the simplest option. > > > >Does this mean that I will have to put a ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs > > configuration file in each user's account? And will that mean that each > > will have to have their own bayes learning? > > I believe that is how it works, but I can't readily check as there aren't any > other users on this machine that actually have external email accounts. I > run fetchmail as a 500:500 process, and both .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc > live in that users home directory. As does a .spamassassin subdir that > contains: [Snip] > >What I was hoping to achieve was that all user's mail would be checked for > > viruses and spam, offending mails would be put into a "IN_Spam" folder > > which is then used each night as the basis for sa-learn. Only "clean" mail > > would then be passed on to their respective /var/spool/mail/username > > folder... > > I essentially do that here as all mail and SA related stuff is done by me as > a > user, but at the end of the chain its kmail, run as root. Joanne, if she has > the time, can tell you how to set that up as its much more secure to handle > your mail as an un-priviledged user even if you do run as root 99.44% of the > time. > [Snip]
Thanks to all the people who helped me think about this. I have now resolved the problem to my satisfaction. For the benefit of others looking at this thread I will briefly describe my solution: Essentially I still run Procmail as root, I still do the virus / spam checking before splitting the mails off into their respective users' mail directories - but now I run SA with the following command from Procmail: :0fw * < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc --username=mark (mark is *my* username) This meant that I had to copy over the bayes files from /etc/mail/spamassassin into /home/mark/.spamassassin and put the spam directory in my user area (in actual fact I just re-ran sa-learn on my spam and ham folders) and now all is well in the land of my humble little home mail server... Thanks again to all... Mark
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