On Monday 09 November 2015 at 16:23:52, Phil Reynolds wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:11:16 +0100 Antony Stone wrote: > > > > What are the ownership & permissions on: > > > > /var/mail/,spamassassin > > Tried root.root and debian-spamd.debian.spamd, 755.
What did Jessie install it as? > > /var/mail/.spamassassin/user_prefs > > Not there at all. Have you tried creating it, to let spamd look in it? > > and which user does spamassassin run as on your system? > > root - which I'm slightly surprised at. How did you identify this? > > How is spamassassin being called in order to give its opinion on > > email? > > exim is calling it. The results also appear in syslog. 1. I seriously doubt that on a Debian system exim is running as root. What do you see in the first column of output from "ps aux | grep exim"? 2. It sounds like we're talking slightly at cross-purposes here. Exim may be calling spamassassin (PS: how?), but that's not spamd, providing a network service to other machines. What do you see in the first column of output from "ps aux | grep spamd"? Antony. -- Users don't know what they want until they see what they get. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.