RinkWorks wrote:
So it's a mystery, I guess, but case closed. But thank you very much for giving this matter
your attention.
I was wrong -- the case is still open. But I found out why Bayes wasn't working and then kicked in.
Basically, I discovered that Spam Assassin wasn't paying attention to the whitelist_from statements in my user_prefs file. So I wondered if it was using a different .spamassassin directory somewhere. Sure enough, there's a /var/spool/exim4/.spamassassin directory. The reason why Bayesian filtering wasn't working, then suddenly kicked in, is because *THAT* director's bayesian filtering database hadn't gotten enough hams and spams yet, but eventually it autolearned enough of both to kick in.
That directory is owned by the "Debian-exim4" user, which is the user that owns the exim4 daemon process. However, the "spamd" processes are running as root.
There must be a way to have spamd run in a way that it looks at each individual user's .spamassassin directory instead of the mail daemon user. I'd think that would be a common thing. But I can't figure out how to set it up that way.
Anybody know?
Just to reiterate from before, when "/etc/init.d/spamassassin start" runs, I get a process that looks like this:
root 25165 0.0 1.3 32176 28780 ? SNs Sep07 0:05 /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
Thanks in advance.
