[Mimedefang] Patch to Add Spamd Support

[Xiaoyan Ma]

At 08:45 AM 6/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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>Bill Maidment wrote:
> > It looks to me like you just substitute spamd_ for spam_assassin_ in
> > your filter. I'm running it now and I've noticed some warning
> > messages
> > about spamd still running as root. I'm using RedHat 9.
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>Sorry, I guess I never thought to include this information. I kinda figured
>it would be slightly off-topic. But, as it relates to the patch...
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>I'm running spamd with "-a -u defang" as options. That way, it uses the
>auto-whitelist and runs as the same user as MIMEDefang. This is not
>strictly required. I do it because I keep my auto-whitelist in
>/var/lib/MIMEDefang which I have owned by the defang user. (I have
>/var/spool/MIMEDefang mounted using tmpfs, so no permanent data like an
>auto-whitelist can live there.) Also, I keep the bayes db files in
>/var/lib/MIMEDefang.

I know this is off-topic and at a lower level.  But this is what I want to 
set up: system wide bayes db files.  Could you provide with more details 
(including how to run spamd can run on a separate machine, or even a cluster) ?

Thanks.
Xiaoyan