I have an oddity occuring. In my site-wide (local.cf) rules, I have some custom rules, but none concerning dell.com . I want
one user to always get any mail from dell.com, but if other users get mail from that domain (or one spoofed to look like it) I
want the general rules and learning to send it to the spam folder.
I put a whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my special user's /home/____/.spamassassin/user_prefs file, but I'm wondering if it
gets trapped before it goes to his directory, will it still be whitelisted? In other words, if some rule or learned method says
that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (spoofed address) is spam, will he still get it because it's addressed to him and his rules
say to whitelist anything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?????
I think you're grossly misunderstanding how the whole user_prefs system works.
SA does not EVER read user_prefs based on who the message is addressed to. After all, how does it know the addressee has an account on the server? Most of my user's don't have accounts at all, as the mailserver that runs SA is just a front-end relay to an internal server.
Instead user_prefs is read based on the user ID that invokes the process (unless over-ridden with a -u parameter). This means that for most site-wide server setups, there's only one user_prefs ever read.. Usually this is root, mail, spamd, nobody, or some similar system account. It doesn't matter who it's addressed to, user_prefs is loaded from the home directory of the current user. If you specify -u, spamd does a setuid to that user prior to accessing ~/.spamassassin, and thus get's that user's home directory.
Since SA only ever reads one user_prefs file per message, any other user_prefs files on the system are irrelevant. However, which user_prefs file is being read might not be what you think it is.
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