Index: [Article Count Order] [Thread]

Date:  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:54:51 -0600
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:11983] Re: spamd: handle_user unable to find user:
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <002801c86cce$d4a5d640$0101a8c0@systemax>
In-Reply-To:  <47B07659.6000108 (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com>
X-Mail-Count: 11983


Greg,

Thanks!

It works, I was a little concerned though!

Gerald


-
Gerald Waugh
http://frontstreetnetworks.com
Front Street Networks
4604 Fern Ave
Shreveport, LA 71105-3118
V: 318-862-3575/3577
F: 318-862-3576


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kuhnert [mailto:greg.kuhnert (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com] 
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:23 AM
> To: Gerald Waugh
> Cc: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:11981] Re: spamd: handle_user unable to find user:
> 
> 
> Hi Gerald.
> 
> These messages will come up if you are using the milter for email 
> addresses that are not user (at mark) domain (eg first.last (at mark) domain)
> 
> The milter is not smart enough to translate first.last@domain into a 
> linux username.
> 
> The only downside is that the milter will not use any user-specific 
> spam-assassin preferences. For this reason, I have my milter 
> thresholds 
> a bit higher than normal to allow it to block mail that is "definite 
> spam".... Then, I have another pass of spam-assassin at the 
> user level 
> (and using user settings), to do detailed filtering.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
> 
> Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > Hi Blues!
> >
> > See many entries in /var/log/maillog as below;
> > Server is running NuOnce spamassassin
> >
> > Feb 11 06:53:27 ns1 spamd[26596]: spamd: connection from localhost
> > [127.0.0.1] at port 57853
> > Feb 11 06:53:27 ns1 spamd[26596]: spamd: handle_user unable to find
> > user: 'jbailey'
> > Feb 11 06:53:27 ns1 spamd[26596]: spamd: still running as 
> root: user not
> > specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody
> > Feb 11 06:53:27 ns1 spamd[26596]: spamd: processing message
> > <000e01c86cad$1825eda0$0ac89fd9@hhfin> for jbailey:99
> >
> > Is this a problem?
> >
> > -
> > Gerald Waugh
> > http://frontstreetnetworks.com
> > Front Street Networks
> > 4604 Fern Ave
> > Shreveport, LA 71105-3118
> > V: 318-862-3575/3577
> > F: 318-862-3576
> >
> >   
>