hi, I have recently installed spamassassin 2.64, with courier-mta. This is some of the errors I am seeing in /var/log/maillog.
Sep 22 11:03:15 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Argument "" isn't numeric in scalar assignment at /usr/bin/spamd line 942. Sep 22 11:03:15 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at /usr/bin/spamd line 943. Sep 22 11:03:15 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: info: setuid to root succeeded Sep 22 11:03:16 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/spamd line 958. Sep 22 11:03:16 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Creating default_prefs [/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Sep 22 11:03:16 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Cannot write to /.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory Sep 22 11:03:16 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Couldn't create readable default_prefs for [/.spamassassin/user_prefs] Sep 22 11:03:16 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: Still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. Sep 22 11:03:16 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: processing message (unknown) for root:99. Sep 22 11:03:17 ver-arc-ms1 spamd[24898]: clean message (2.9/3.0) for root:99 in 1.2 seconds, 261 bytes. I feel like I have missed something out, although I have follwed the steps on several websites to do this. Thanks, Gillian