Re: Bayes only if -u specified?

Jason Frisvold wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quick question. Is it possible to set up spamassassin to use Bayes
> only if the -u option is passed via spamc? I'm using simscan to call
> spamassassin and if the user is not specified, it falls back to the
> nobody account. The bayesian database fills up with tons of tokens
> that I believe are hurting, rather than helping, the identification of
> spam.
>
> Thanks,
>

Two options, since you're using spamc/spamd.

1. Put user configs into SQL and for user nobody set use_bayes 0, you might get similar results if you give user nobody an actual home directory and a user_prefs file, but I've never tried that.
2. There is a plugin hook that you can use that allows you to authorize bayes for specific users. It would be pretty trivial to write an everyone except user nobody plugin to do what you want. Here is a sample plugin you could build off of: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AuthzUserPlugin

Michael Received on Fri Oct 12 12:37:13 2007