Hello,

I'm new to Debian and am trying to understand the Right way to
configure the standard (aptitude-installed) spamassassin package to
use tmpfs shared memory for its temporary directory.

I see the following in /etc/init.d/spamassassin

          export TMPDIR=/tmp

But this file should not be edited by hand.  I think I have to put my
changes into /etc/default/spamassassin

I'm not sure what the best thing to do would be.  Do I just try to
override by putting "export TMPDIR=/dev/shm" into
/etc/default/spamassassin?

Also, how can I test/verify where SpamAssassin thinks its temporary
directory is?  Right now mail volume is next to nothing, so temp files
seem to get cleaned up faster than I can check /tmp to see if in fact
SA is putting any there.

Thank you!

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