Hi
/usr/share/spamassassin - contains version release time rules, always used
unless next dir exists.
/var/lib/spamassassin/<version>/ - contains 'sa-update'ed rules to bring
release time rules upto date without needing a full version release
/etc/mail/spamassassin - contains site wide rules and settings.
~/.spamassassin contains user specific rules.
So copying rules from /usr/share/spamassassin to ~/.spamassassin will achieve
nothing.
Get the idea now?
--
martin
-----Original Message-----
From: aladdin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 3:13 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Spamassassin Letting a Lot of Spams Through
On Sunday 14 September 2008 10:06, aladdin wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2008 05:07, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 01:05 -0400, aladdin wrote:
> > > > So, evidently, it can't find my bayes database. So, since I want to
> > > > use a system-wide database, where is it (/usr/share/spamassassin?,
> > > > which has a lot of likely looking files in it), and how do I tell
> > > > spamd to use it?
> >
> > By default it is in the .spamassassin directory of the user SA runs in.
> >
> > Using /usr/share/spamassin sounds like a bad idea to me: you're
> > attempting to mix site-specific data with system files.
> >
> >
> > Martin
>
> Hmmm! Oddly enough, that's where apt (the Debian package manager) put
> them. So, I guess that leads to two more areas of questions:
>
> 1. Is there no precedent for stopping spam using system-wide files? I am
> almost the sole user of this machine and would like to do this, if it's
> possibe. Why would apt put them there otherwise?
>
> 2. If question one leads to user-specific files & directories, do I just
> take the contents of /usr/share/spamassassin and copy it into
> ~/.spamassassin? The contents of /usr/share/spamassassin are:
> ###########################################################
> total 676
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-07 19:24 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 256 root root 12288 2008-09-07 19:24 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5681 2007-02-15 00:28 10_misc.cf
<snip>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18944 2007-02-15 00:28 triplets.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1843 2007-02-15 00:28 user_prefs.template
> ####################################################################
> Are these the files to be copied to ~/.spamassassin?
As it turns out, I do have a ~/.spamassassin directory. It's current contents
are:
#################################################################
-rw------- 1 anw anw 1306624 2008-09-14 03:38 auto-whitelist
-rw------- 1 anw anw 88190 2008-07-28 16:52 bayes_journal
-rw------- 1 anw anw 684032 2008-07-28 16:52 bayes_seen
-rw------- 1 anw anw 5283840 2008-07-28 16:52 bayes_toks
-rw-r--r-- 1 anw anw 1487 2008-07-28 16:52 user_prefs
#################################################################
Should I just copy the above into it and change the owner/group, and that's
how spamassassin is supposed to work?
--
Thanks and regards,
anw
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