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On Saturday 19 August 2006 19:58, Jeroen Geilman wrote: |
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> They're not funky errors; spamd is simply telling you that it cannot |
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> create a ~/.spamassassin directory for user "nobody" - which is not |
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> surprising, since nobody doesn't *have* a homedirectory. |
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> This is a known limitation when running spamd from within exim's acls - |
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> it can only run as one user, since there is currently no way for exim to |
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> pass the username to spamd. |
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> There are two solutions - either run spamd as one dedicated user who |
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> does have a homedirectory, say "spamd", or use the old procmail |
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> forwarding method which can and does work per-user. |
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> The reason Exim can't do per-user spamchecking has to do with the way it |
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> processes messages - when the spamd ACL is evaluated, it doesn't yet |
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> know the final destination. |
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> I found this out after some heavy Googling and detailed perusing of the |
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> Exim manual - which is very good by the way, *if* you can grasp its syntax. |
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> I finally opted to just run as "nobody" and forget the per-user Bayes |
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> database - resulting in a significant amount of spam... |
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> I'm currently moving back to postfix, which has worked for me in the past. |
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Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. |
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Okay, this now makes sense to me. nobody on my system has / as the home |
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directory (wtf?), and of course it doesn't have perms there. so ~/ becomes // |
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in the logs. Okay makes sense so far. |
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What I did was make a dedicated user for spamd to drop down to. I informed |
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gentoo of this by editing the appropriate options in /etc/conf.d/spamd , and |
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also changing the location of the pidfile there to the home directory of the |
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new user. I then set this users shell to bash (though I don't think I should |
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need one?) |
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Starting spamd looks normal. ps auwxxx | grep spam shows three processes: One |
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root spamd and two children running as the user I specified. |
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When exim sends mail at it, I get the exact same errors; As if it is for some |
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reason using the root spamd. Doesn't really make sense to me. |
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None of it makes sense to me, as i've run exim + spamd in the past on other |
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servers out of the box; No mucking of usernames etc was ever needed. |
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Also, I am not trying to get per-user spam stuff to work, only run spamd as a |
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non-priv user, and have exim talk to the daemon via localhost:873. |
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I feel like I am missing something here, any idea what it is? |
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