On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:07:11PM +0100, Stephane Leclerc wrote:
| Hi Folks,
|
| I installed spamassassin on a Debian Woody box following this page:
|
| http://bogmog.sourceforge.net/document_show.php3?doc_id=28
|
| Spmassassin 1.5 come direct from the .deb package. I'm using Exim 3.32.
|
| I curently have 2 problems: when the message comes from external, the
Need to see your config to know why.
| The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
|
| ------ root@localhost ------
| Failed to create user preferences file
| "/.spamassassin.cf" from default "/etc/spamassassin.prefs".
| Failed to create default prefs file /.spamassassin.cf
| ------
|
| I tried to understand the messages on the exim-list about spamassassin but
| unfortunaly, I curently don't understand where come from the abowe message
| and how to solve my problems.
This is an annoying mis-feature of spamassassin. By default, the
first time it is run it tries to create $HOME/.spamassassin.cf by
copying the system's config (at that time). You probably have
spamassassin running as user 'mail' which has '/' as the home
directory, but can't create the "/.spamassassin.cf" file.
Here's the solution I have right now :
Transport section :
# Spam Assassin
spamcheck:
driver = pipe
command = "spamassassin -P | exim -oMr spam-scanned -i -f \"${if eq {${sender_address}}{} {mailer-daemon}{${sender_address}}}\" -- \"\\$LOCAL_PART\""
#command = "spamc -f | exim -oMr spam-scanned -i -f \"${if eq {${sender_address}}{} {mailer-daemon}{${sender_address}}}\" -- \"\\$LOCAL_PART\""
use_shell = true
home_directory = "/etc/spamassassin"
current_directory = "/tmp"
# must use a privileged user to set $received_protocol on the way back in!
user = mail
group = mail
path = "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#log_fail_output = true
log_output = true
return_fail_output = true
#return_output = false
prefix =
suffix =
check_string =
escape_string =
return_path_add = false
Directors Section :
# Spam Assassin
spamcheck_director:
# When to scan a message :
# - it isn't already flagged as spam
# - it isn't already scanned
# - it didn't originate locally (as long as I don't harbor spammers :-))
condition = "${if and { {!def:h_X-Spam-Flag:} {!eq {$received_protocol}{spam-scanned}} {!eq {$received_protocol}{local}} } {1}{0}}"
driver = smartuser
transport = spamcheck
Also, on line 467 of /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Spamassassin.pm the
"create_default_prefs" subroutine begins. I commented out the entire
body of this routine (it is where the system conf is copied to the
user's home directory).
I'm working on getting the spamc/spamd combo working since it is
_much_ faster than running spamassassin separately for each message.
-D
--
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path.
Psalms 119:105
