I left off below that I am using spam-milter 0.3.1-1
=================================================================== I am new to this. I have been running my mail server in various flavors for 10+ years. Always trying to do better.... PLATFORM: Centos 5.0 1Ghz processor 512Mb memory Mail server: Scalix 11.1 MTA: Sendmail ver. 8.13.8 Spamassassin: 3.1.9 Webmin: 1.360 I followed the Scalix WiKi spamassassin install instructions: http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=HowTos/SpamAssassin I am using Thunderbird 1.5.0.12, sending mail has a significant delay. The meter just sits there near the beginning for quite some time. Often, the sending times out. I read through much of the spamassassin WiKi. Nothing on performance seems to apply. When I go into the /var/log/maillog, I catch soom real problems. I enabled DNS checking (dns_available yes) and restarted spamassassin via webmin and caught the following in the maillog: Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: connection from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 48800 Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded Aug 17 12:13:28 z9m9z spamd[1381]: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody at /usr/bin/spamd line 1161, <GEN4> line 4. And looking at running processes via webmin I see: 1373 root 12:13 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid 1381 nobody 12:13 spamd child 1382 root 12:13 spamd child What do I change so that it does not fall back to 'nobody'? Now this MIGHT explain something else I am seeing in maillog: Aug 17 12:48:16 z9m9z spamd[1381]: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1536 Aug 17 12:48:16 z9m9z spamd[1381]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.1381 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Aug 17 12:48:16 z9m9z spamd[1381]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.z9m9z.htt-consult.com.1381 for /root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: Permission denied Please lend me a hand in cleaning what looks to be a very basic set of install problems.
