Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-05 03:57, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:34:46 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2010-03-04 08:15, Camaleón wrote:
>
> > > Mmmm, what MTA/POP3/IMAP design are you using?
> > fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop
> >
> > $ grep spam /etc/postfix/master.cf
> > smtp      inet  n   -   n   -   -   \
> >                    smtpd -o content_filter=spamfilter:
> > spamfilter unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rq user=spamfilter \
> >                    argv=/usr/local/bin/spamfilter.sh \
> >                    -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}
>
> Mmmm... are you using spamd/spamc?

The spamfilter.sh script runs spamc.

    $ cat /usr/local/bin/spamfilter.sh
    #!/bin/bash
    /usr/bin/spamc  | /usr/sbin/sendmail -i "$@"
    exit $?

> I ask because I think spamd/spamc can change its uid to read/write into 
> the users folders but it seems you are invoking spamfilter as user 
> "spamfilter" and maybe that user has not the rights to read the users 
> config files :-?
[snip]
> Try by running "spamassassin -D --lint" and watch the "config: read file" 
> output lines.
>
> Look, when I run "spamassassin -D --lint" as the user calling spamd 
> (sm02) I get:
>
> ***
> [8059] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/65_debian.cf
> [8059] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
> [8059] dbg: config: using "/home/sm02/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user 
> prefs file
> ***
>
> But when runned as "root" I get:
>
> ***
> [8066] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/65_debian.cf
> [8066] dbg: config: read file /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
> ***
>
> It cannot read the user's config file.

You're right, it looks like SA isn't running from each individual user.

me@haggis:~$ spamassassin -D --lint 2> SA-debug.output.txt
me@haggis:~$ grep user_prefs SA-debug.output.txt
Mar  5 11:32:48.538 [11220] dbg: config: using \
        "/home/me/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user prefs file
Mar  5 11:32:48.538 [11220] dbg: config: read \
        file /home/me/.spamassassin/user_prefs

root@haggis:~# spamassassin -D --lint 2> SA-debug.output.txt
root@haggis:~# grep user_prefs SA-debug.output.txt
root@haggis:~#

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