Please note that I am working on Training Server not a working server. My mission is to learn how all of the packages work together. There are many - spamassassin, exim, dovecot, clamav, roundcube to name a few It was suggested that I set up a spamassassin user_prefs file. AND so I have been taking steps to do just that. The feedback seems to express it is not possible.
As I write this I have to confess I do not know the difference between a "unix user" and a "virtual user". Will have to look into that notion. In the VestaCP control panel I can create a user (which ends up as /home/clientName) with a valid FQD name. I can send email to the user. The user can pull up the RoundCube email client and see and read the emails. I can send the GTUBE spam message and the message gets marked as SPAM and dropped in the junk email box. I was trying to set up a blacklist so that the user could enter email-addresses to stop receiving email form. On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:55 AM, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:47:33 -0800 > Amanda Giarla wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:39 PM, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:17:02 -0800 > > > Amanda Giarla wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I looked at the permission of the user_prefs file and for > > > > ownership and group-ownership it is root root. should it be > > > > debian-spamd debian-spamd? I did change one of the conf files > > > > from nobody to debian-spamd for ownership. > > > > > > Having a global user_prefs is pretty much pointless. The point of > > > the file is that there is one per email account - either > > > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs for unix mail accounts or a custom > > > location for virtual accounts. > > > > I don't think I was trying to make a global user_prefs file BUT in my > > confusion I may accidentally have implied such. > > The user_prefs file is located at > > /home/clientAccount/.spamassassin/user_prefs. Is that considered > > global? > > > If /home/clientAccount/ is a unix account home directory I'm wondering > why user_prefs was owned by root, and what created it. > > I had a very quick look at the VestaCP installer, and everything seems > to be configured with virtual users, so I doubt the spamassassin glue > supports per unix user configuration. The spamd start-up configuration > is the Ubuntu default, so unless it's a custom package it wont support > user_prefs files for virtual users. > > I'd be surprised if this installation supports per user configuration > beyond turning filtering off and on. It probably would then be able to > find a user_prefs file in a specific home directory, but that would just > represent an unnecessary location for global configuration. >
