Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[David Krider <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been reading over a lot of old posts from the list on this, but I
can't find a definitive answer. I see that a lot of people call
`sa-learn' on a nightly basis to train spamassassin based on a common
couple of missed-spam and not-spam mbox's. However, I can't tell who
should run this. In my setup, I bypass spam checking in amavis, and let
procmail feed spamd directly. In SuSE's default config, spamd runs as
root, so my first guess is that root should run sa-learn. Would this be
different if amavis were doing the spam checking? In that case, would it
be appropriate to call sa-learn from the vscan account?

I guess as I write this, the answers seem clear, but I want to make sure
about this. I'm still having trouble grasping how mail flows through
postfix, amavis, spamassassin, and wu-imap. (I've read through some
things that tie several other things into this list. It boggles my mind
to think about stacking, say, razor on top of it, switching to cyrus
imap, and running with maildir's. One step at a time, I suppose.) Any
other suggestions on how to get the most out of SuSE's default configs
with the least about of frobbage would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
dk