Re: handle_user failure?

[Tony Shadwick]

Hmm.  I guess there was a hack I'd applied way back when from another list
member that actually ran a sendmail -bv ofn the orignal address and passed
that.  For some reason I thought that got added to cvs at some point.

Eep.

I guess I need to hack that back in again.

Tony Shadwick
Manager of Internet Services
Strategic Technology Group
314-872-3000 x105

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Sep 03), Tony Shadwick said:
> > I'm a bit confused by this.  I have the all_spam_to line set in local.cf
> > for spamassassin since the user mikeb does not want to be filtered.  I
> > took a look in the quarantine this morning, and he had 2 messages there
> > anyway.  They were scored 5.7 of 5, and delivered to the user mbiggs.
> > Here is the output of cat /var/log/maillog | grep mbiggs:
> >
> > Sep  3 00:21:20 mail spamd[48112]: handle_user: unable to find user 
> > 'mbiggs'!
> > Sep  3 00:21:20 mail spamd[48112]: processing message <address@hidden> for 
> > mbiggs:65534.
> > Sep  3 00:21:23 mail spamd[48112]: identified spam (6.9/5.0) for 
> > mbiggs:65534 in 3.1 seconds, 33048 bytes.
> > Sep  3 00:21:23 mail sm-mta[48110]: i835LGED048110: Milter add: header: 
> > X-Spam-Orig-To: <address@hidden>
> > Sep  3 00:21:23 mail sm-mta[48110]: i835LGED048110: Milter delete: rcpt 
> > <address@hidden>
> >
> > Can't handle the user mbiggs?
> >
> > Yet, sendmail -bv claims:
> >
> > # sendmail -bv address@hidden
> > mikeb... deliverable: mailer local, user mikeb
> >
> > Color me confused.  The quarantine recognized it for what it was, and
> > quarantined for the correct user, but the milter didn't?  We're both
> > basing this off of sendmail -bv's output, aren't we?
>
> The "unable to find user" error came from spamassassin itself, probably
> becuase spamass-milter passed it the username part of the original
> email address.  This is the default unless you have added "-x -u
> fallbackuser" to the spamass-milter commandline.
>
> --
>       Dan Nelson
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>