Issue spamassassin per-user configuration

[tkalfaoglu]

Server operating system version

Rocky Linux 8.9

Plesk version and microupdate number

Obsidian latest

Hello everyone!
Some (strange) user wanted to get all his junk mail delivered. I checked and he already disabled his Spam Filter setting in his mail settings.
I checked the disk and this is what I found at /var/qmail/mailnames/domain/user/.spamassassin/user_prefs file:

#ATTENTION!
#
#DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY,
#SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST THE NEXT TIME THE FILE IS GENERATED.
required_score 7.0
rewrite_header subject

Shouldn't this file reflect that SA is disabled for this user? I changed the required_score to something very high so his mail wouldn't get filtered. but perhaps this should be done automatically when the user disables his/her spam protection settings?

 

[Peter Debik]

If SpamAssassin is disabled for an account, the configuration file has no effect. You can check your /var/log/maillog for incoming mails for that address. SpamAssassin should not show up in that sequence.

 

[tkalfaoglu]

many thanks. I thought the config file would "automagically" be used by spamassassin as long as "per user" parameter was specified when launching spamd.

 

[JVG]

If SpamAssassin is disabled for an account, the configuration file has no effect. You can check your /var/log/maillog for incoming mails for that address. SpamAssassin should not show up in that sequence.

Hi, wouldn't the SpamAssassin server-wide rules (if active) apply to that user also? Even if the individual user_prefs do not?