[Dovecot] Dovecot Antispam Problem (Using mail sending backend)

[Scott Silva]

on 12/12/2007 6:52 AM Justin Refice spake the following:
> Jim-
> 
> Thanks for the advice, but that didn't quite work.  It's worth noting that
> if I call sendmail manually, the message goes through w/o a problem.  It
> only seems to be when the antispam plugin calls sendmail that we run into a
> problem...
> 
> -J
> 
> On 12/10/07, Jim Horner <jhorner at arinbe.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 10 December 2007 15:10:05 Justin Refice wrote:
>>>> And that's it.  I never hear from the plugin again, regardless of how
>>>> many times I create/delete the SPAM folder, or how many times I
>> move/copy
>>>> into/out of the folder.  The plugin is basically silent.
>>>>   I don't see the mails being sent/recieved, so I'm assuming that's it
>>>> isn't doing anything at all.
>>>>
>>>> I can manually use the training addresses, so I know they're working.
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> I do not know if this will help you or not but for some reason I could not
>> use
>> sendmail. The training emails looped forever. My setup is probably weird
>> but
>> I was able to get around the problem by using mailx:
>>
>>     antispam_mail_spam = spam-%u
>>     antispam_mail_notspam = notspam-%u
>>     #antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>     antispam_mail_sendmail = /usr/bin/mailx
>>
> 
does the anti-spam plugin run as a non-root user?
Or dovecot?
Maybe you need to add that user to trusted users in sendmail. It works from 
commandline because root is already a trusted user.

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