Re: handle_user failure?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 03), Tony Shadwick said:
> I'm a bit confused by this.  I have the all_spam_to line set in local.cf
> for spamassassin since the user mikeb does not want to be filtered.  I
> took a look in the quarantine this morning, and he had 2 messages there
> anyway.  They were scored 5.7 of 5, and delivered to the user mbiggs.
> Here is the output of cat /var/log/maillog | grep mbiggs:
> 
> Sep  3 00:21:20 mail spamd[48112]: handle_user: unable to find user 'mbiggs'!
> Sep  3 00:21:20 mail spamd[48112]: processing message <address@hidden> for 
> mbiggs:65534.
> Sep  3 00:21:23 mail spamd[48112]: identified spam (6.9/5.0) for mbiggs:65534 
> in 3.1 seconds, 33048 bytes.
> Sep  3 00:21:23 mail sm-mta[48110]: i835LGED048110: Milter add: header: 
> X-Spam-Orig-To: <address@hidden>
> Sep  3 00:21:23 mail sm-mta[48110]: i835LGED048110: Milter delete: rcpt 
> <address@hidden>
> 
> Can't handle the user mbiggs?
> 
> Yet, sendmail -bv claims:
> 
> # sendmail -bv address@hidden
> mikeb... deliverable: mailer local, user mikeb
> 
> Color me confused.  The quarantine recognized it for what it was, and
> quarantined for the correct user, but the milter didn't?  We're both
> basing this off of sendmail -bv's output, aren't we?

The "unable to find user" error came from spamassassin itself, probably
becuase spamass-milter passed it the username part of the original
email address.  This is the default unless you have added "-x -u
fallbackuser" to the spamass-milter commandline.

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        Dan Nelson
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