[PLUG] spamassassin not working for all users

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Aug 19 17:39:58 UTC 2008


On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, frank hunt wrote:

> Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, frank hunt wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure where to look.  Primary user's junk mail is captured and 
>>> redirected to the garbage collector user.  Just noticed that a 
>>> message got through to another user.  The subject contained the 
>>> requisite *****SPAM***** notification.  Ideas?
>>
>> Your mail log is a good place to start. You should be able to see 
>> the expected sequence of events for the primary user then compare 
>> it what occurred for the other user.
>>
>> You might also check to see if there are different user preferences 
>> specified in each user's $HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs file.
>
> It appears that it is NOT a user issue, that was coincidental.  My 
> local.cf file set required_score at 2.9 but spamchk set it at 3.0. 
> Apparently, spamchk overrides local.cf.  Does that make sense?

Sure. I've never used spamchk, but overriding local.cf is a long and 
honored tradition! :-)

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