From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 23 04:48:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3A31065679 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C7B8FC1F for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAN4mZJn000536; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:48:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:48:50 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Marwan Sultan Message-ID: <20091123044850.GA47277@thought.org> References: <20091123012208.GA46908@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: spamassassin question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:48:57 -0000 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:30:47AM +0000, Marwan Sultan wrote: > > Gary, > > > > Its an old problem with /root/.spamassassin > > I dunt know why spamassassin still have it by default :( > > 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! > > > in your local.cf > > add the lines > > > > auto_whitelist_path /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist > bayes_path /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes > just to be complete++, :-), you mean /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf , is this correct?? > > > Save and Exit, > done! > Then: > > > > mkdir /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin > > touch /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist > > chown spamd /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin > > chown spamd /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist would you check my tying to see if i've made any mistakes? > > > > You will need to set the right permissions then. > > 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? ----- > > And thats it. > > > > Marwan Sultan > > System Administrator > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php