On 2017/06/29 21:37, Fritjof Bornebusch wrote: > Hi, > > security(8) iterates over /var/mail and check is the files belong to the > owner of the same name. So far so good, but spamd.conf.5 says: > > override:\ > :white:\ > :method=file:\ > :file=/var/mail/override.txt: > > myblack:\ > :black:\ > :msg=/var/mail/myblackmsg.txt:\ > :method=file:\ > :file=/var/mail/myblack.txt: > > so the user *black.txt* and/or *override.txt* are assumed to exist > by security(8). As it says: > > Checking mailbox ownership. > user myblack.txt mailbox is owned by _spamd > > The following diff documents this in the manpage of spamd.conf(5) by > changing the path to /var/mail/_spamd/. > > I thought about changing security(8) to fix this, but _spamd is the name > of the user, so it does whats it's supposed to do.
Wouldn't something like /etc/mail be better for these examples? It seems contradictory to hier(7) to have anything other than user mailboxes in /var/mail (even if it's just an example in the manual).
