spamassassin question

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:30:47AM +0000, Marwan Sultan wrote:
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> Gary,
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>  Its an old problem with /root/.spamassassin
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>  I dunt know why spamassassin still have it by default :(
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>  I spent a day or so to figure it out.. however,
> 


	i think everyone uwho uses spamassassim would be very
	grateful; i am, certain.  thanks!


>  
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>  in your local.cf
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>  add the lines
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> auto_whitelist_path /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist
> bayes_path /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes
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	just to be complete++, :-), you mean

	/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

	, is this correct??


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>  Save and Exit,
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	done!

>  Then:
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>  mkdir /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin
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>  touch /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist
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>  chown spamd /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin
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>  chown spamd /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist


	would you check my tying to see if i've made any mistakes?


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>  You will need to set the right permissions then.
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>  


	another question: are these the same perms, 0755, as before [in /root]?
	i want to document and save these data in a local spamd howto
	file for the next time i need to go thru this morass... 


	lastly, what format is used in the whitelist?  is it similar
	to what i have in /etc/mail/access?

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> 
>  And thats it.
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>  
> 
>  Marwan Sultan
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>  System Administrator
> 
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