Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

[Rich Winkel]

Hi, I can't seem to find this anywhere, so I guess it couldn't be
too much of a faq :)

I'd like spamassassin to be bypassed for mail which originates from
the local server (sendmail running on freebsd)
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!
Rich

Re: Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

[Rich Winkel]

According to Andrzej Adam Filip:
> How do you deployed spamassassin?

I use a milter ...

Rich

bayes database merge?

[Rich Winkel]

Hi, I was wondering how one might go about merging two or more bayes
databases into one?  I have a user who for various reasons can't save
his spam back to the server, so I thought I'd create a database for him
by "averaging" others' data.  I know there are problems with this, but
it's better than nothing...

Thanks,
Rich

globbing in user_prefs whitelist not working

[Rich Winkel]

Hi, I'm using SA 2.63 on freebsd 4.10.  It seems that
whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in user_prefs isn't working, I have to fully specify the userid.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!
Rich

Re: globbing in user_prefs whitelist not working

[Rich Winkel]

I should mention that the address in question is the user's own address;
he's cc:ing mail to himself.  I have to fully specify his address.

According to Rich Winkel:
> Hi, I'm using SA 2.63 on freebsd 4.10.  It seems that
> whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> in user_prefs isn't working, I have to fully specify the userid.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> Rich
> 

netset: illegal network address given

[Rich Winkel]

Could someone explain what this means?  I'm getting it when
I do a "sa-learn --spam"

Thanks!
Rich

sa ignoring whitelist_from in user_prefs

[Rich Winkel]

For a particular user, I'm finding no correlation between his whitelist_from's
in user_prefs and the whitelist status as reported in incoming messages.
I see messages with no USER_IN_WHITELIST when both the From and From: addresses
match a whitelist_from line in the user_prefs file.  I also see messages
with USER_IN_WHITELIST but that userid is NOT listed in the user_prefs.

What could cause this??

Thanks,
Rich

Re: sa ignoring whitelist_from in user_prefs

[Rich Winkel]

According to Matt Kettler:
> 9 times out of 10, this is caused by someone who's calling SA at the MTA
> layer, but they're trying to use the user_prefs in the recipients home
> directory.
> 
> SA has no reliable way to determine who the recipient is, given the
> content of the message it receives. Even if it could, it would not know
> if that user has a local account or not.
> 
> Therefore, unless told otherwise with spamc -u, SA uses the userprefs
> that belongs to the userid that executed the call to spamassassin.
> 
> Most MTA layer integrations wind up always calling SA as the same system
> account user that the MTA runs as, resulting in only one user_prefs ever
> being used.

Yikes!  Somehow I didn't catch this.   I'm using spamass-milter and it
has a "-u" option for just this situation.

Many thanks!!

Rich

Moving user's SA directory elsewhere

[Rich Winkel]

Because of an NFS bottleneck I'd like to move users' .spamassassin
directories to a local directory such as /var/spool/sa/USERNAME/
Can someone tell me where this path is set?

Thanks,
Rich