On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 16:42:43 +0100 Antony Stone <antony.st...@spamassassin.open.source.it> wrote:
> 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? Not at all. > > > /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? See below - it looks like I'm missing some information. All one package but different bits of it. > > > 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"? Debian-+ - likely really Debian-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. As for the "how?", I can't rightly say - but it's actually spamd that's giving the opinion. > What do you see in the first column of output from "ps aux | grep > spamd"? root -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-spamassas...@tinsleyviaduct.com
