Re: Can a .spamassassin directory in a user's home directory override the site-wide configuration?

[Steve Dondley]

OK, thanks for the additional info. It looks like I was having a 
permissions issue and the bayes_* files were not both r/w for users 
despite having bayes_file_mode set to 0666. I'm thinking probably 
because the bayes_path was originally created manually with root.

spamassassin reads site-wide config, then users' 
~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

spamd can do the same, if it runs under root without the '-x' flag 
(which
disables this behavior).

spamc connects to spamd passing the username to it, so you can override
current user by passing the "-u username" flag to it.