Re: sa ignoring whitelist_from in user_prefs
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
Re: sa ignoring whitelist_from in user_prefs
Rich Winkel wrote: 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?? Are you sure you're using the right user_prefs file? 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.
sa ignoring whitelist_from in user_prefs
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
