On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:53:28 -0800
Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:28:26 -0500
> "Gorm Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I am using SA2.63 on a RH7.2 system.  spamd, running as "mail" is
> > called from procmail as  $USER, which is set by fetchmail as the
> > user whose mail is being downloaded. My setup is a common bayes
> > database in/etc/mail/spamassassin for two users.
> > 
> > The SA report inserted in each message shows that only the default
> > rules are applied, but none of the user rules, which are in
> > /etc/mail/spamassassin. If spamassassin is run directly from the
> > command line as "root" and as"mail", all rules are applied.

spamd should be started by root with the '-u mail' option.  procmailrc
(maybe in /etc) needs DROPPRIVS=yes near the top.  /etc/mail/spamassassin
should be owned by user mail, along with all files in the directory
including the bayes_* files.

Alex

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