trouble running spamass-milter as spamd

[Thomas Abthorpe]

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My apologies for taking so long to get back to you. 

Let me first start by saying I do not know much about postfix. 

I emulated your spamass-milter settings on my system, and had no
problems, but after looking even closer at it, it seems to me you might
want to try run sa-spamd with -u spamd, as spamass-milter is behaving as
it ought to.

I hope this helps.

Thomas

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:04:10 -0700
Peter Losher <plosher at plosh.net> wrote:

> I am integrating spamass-milter into my postfix-based MX's, and while
> mail to me works and is processed by spamd (as I have an account on
> the box), mail to non-existant users throws up errors when it's
> invoked:
> 
> -=-
> Mar 13 08:48:20 no-mx spamd[657]: spamd: handle_user unable to find
> user: 'boom'
> Mar 13 08:48:20 no-mx spamd[657]: spamd: still running as root: user
> not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to
> nobody at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1144, <GEN192> line 4.
> -=-
> 
> Now in /etc/rc.conf I have -u set to spamd:
> 
> -=-
> spamass_milter_enable="YES"
> spamass_milter_socket="/var/run/spamass-milter.sock"
> spamass_milter_flags="-f -p ${spamass_milter_socket} -r 10 -m -u
> spamd" -=-
> 
> and ps verifies this:
> 
> -=-
> root       620  0.0  0.7  3640  1652  ??  Ss    1:08AM   0:01.38
> /usr/local/sbin/spamass-milter -f -p /var/run/spamass-milter.sock -r
> 10 -m -u spamd
> -=-
> 
> and spamd is a valid user on this system; I even gave it a proper
> shell in case that was the problem:
> 
> -=-
> % finger spamd
> Login: spamd                            Name: SpamAssassin user
> Directory: /var/spool/spamd             Shell: /bin/csh
> Never logged in.
> No Mail.
> No Plan
> -=-
> 
> So am I missing something here?
> 
> Best Wishes - Peter

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