RE: Problem with SA/spamass-milter/MySQL/bayes.

[Cassandra L Brockett]

Just noticing this, and thought I would ask...

The -u option to spamass-milter only comes into play if the username of
the email message is unknown (very rare, usually a mail server bug), or
if there is multiple recipients...

So in other words, if you are somehow using the root account to receive
your email and expecting spamass-milter to pass steveo through, it won't
as root is a valid user...

I know it seems rather obvious and you have probably already checked
that - but what about aliases and redirections of that nature, as
spamass-milter does do checking of alias trees and all that before
delivering messages.

If all the above is right (that is the mail is being sent to
steveo@<whereever>, and that is not an alias to root, or a redirection
to root anywhere), then it sounds like you do have a real bug...

--
Cassandra


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden
] On Behalf Of Steven W. Orr
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:49 AM
> To: Nate Schindler
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Problem with SA/spamass-milter/MySQL/bayes.
> 
> On Monday, May 9th 2005 at 09:46 -0700, quoth Nate Schindler:
> 
> =>This question is better asked on the spamassassin mailing 
> list; your 
> =>milter options should be adequate.
> =>
> =>
> =>It looks to me like it's working as it should - you don't 
> have enough 
> =>messages learned for it to enable bayes scoring.
> =>
> =>See `man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf`
> =>
> =>There are two options for local.cf to adjust the threshold 
> for enabling 
> =>bayes:
> =>
> =>#
> =>bayes_min_ham_num 1
> =>bayes_min_spam_num 1
> =>#
> =>
> =>This would turn bayes on with having only one ham and one 
> spam in the 
> =>database.  By default, it won't enable bayes until you have 
> 200 spam and 
> =>200 ham learned.  You're actually almost there with 191.
> =>
> =>N8
> 
> No. The problem is that the mail is being sent to steveo not 
> root. The SQL 
> query is going to the root account on email that's only addressed to 
> steveo. The steveo account has 3381 spams and 279619 hams.
> 
> =>
> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: address@hidden
> =>[mailto:address@hidden
> =>Behalf Of Steven W. Orr
> =>Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 6:11 PM
> =>To: spamass-milt list; spamassassin-users
> =>Subject: Problem with SA/spamass-milter/MySQL/bayes.
> =>
> =>
> =>Since I switched over to using MySQL to hold the userprefs, 
> awl and bayes, 
> =>I see that the bayes processing no longer functions.
> =>
> =>Here's the relevant bayes debug output for a message that comes in 
> =>addresed to me (address@hidden):
> =>
> =>debug: bayes: Using username: root
> =>debug: bayes: Database connection established
> =>debug: bayes: found bayes db version 3
> =>debug: bayes: Using userid: 1
> =>debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 191 spam(s) 
> in Bayes DB < 200
> =>debug: Score set 1 chosen.
> =>logmsg: processing message 
> <address@hidden> for root:0.
> =>debug: bayes: Database connection established
> =>debug: bayes: found bayes db version 3
> =>debug: bayes: Using userid: 1
> =>debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 191 spam(s) 
> in Bayes DB < 200
> =>
> =>The problem is that it is selecting root as the user for 
> everything, i.e., 
> =>userprefs and bayes. I think it's using root for awl as well.
> =>
> =>The options for spamass-milter are
> =>    -m -u steveo
> =>
> =>The options for spamd are
> =>    -d -x -q -m 5
> =>
> =>What do I do? :-(
> =>
> =>TIA
> =>
> =>-- 
> =>Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. 
> Stranger things have  .0.
> =>happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's 
> license say Organ ..0
> =>Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to 
> me! We are all- 000
> =>individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
> =>steveo at syslang.net
> =>
> =>
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> -- 
> Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger 
> things have  .0.
> happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's 
> license say Organ ..0
> Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to 
> me! We are all- 000
> individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
> steveo at syslang.net
> 
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