On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:41:34AM -0600, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> Exim does not actually run spamc, it connects directly to spamd.
>
> spamd does run as root. Exim can connect as nobody depending on your
> configuration. Generally though, you want to have a writable home
> directory so it is
> -Original Message-
> From: Stuart Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: zondag 12 november 2006 18:35
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Exim4 / spamd --username question
>
>
>
> Exim does not actually run spamc, it connects directly
Exim does not actually run spamc, it connects directly to spamd.
spamd does run as root. Exim can connect as nobody depending on your
configuration. Generally though, you want to have a writable home
directory so it is easiest to create a user for this purpose that Exim
can connect as.
Bil
I'm not clear if I need to run spamd as a specific user or run as root
and use spamd -H .
This is a single mail server running Debian Stable with the packages
listed below. SA configuration is system-wide, that is, there's no
user-specific configurations to worry about.
ii exim4-daemon-h 4.50-8
