[Mimedefang] SpamAssassin from MIMEDefang vs. spamd

[Josh Kelley]

On 6/14/06, Fredrik Nyberg <nba at abo.fi> wrote:
> running spam_assassin_check() on mail produces different results than
> dumping said to spamd; very different results indeed. Configs seem to be
> loading correctly and local.cf has been loaded. Sometime bayes test seem
> to differ, too.

MIMEDefang always runs SpamAssassin checks as the defang user (or
whatever user you configured mimedefang to run under).  This means
that you only use defang's Bayesian database and don't use per-user
SpamAssassin configurations.  spamd uses separate Bayesian databases
and checks for separate SpamAssassin configurations for each
recipient.

MIMEDefang also loads its own sa-mimedefang.cf file by default; that
may affect its configuration.

Josh Kelley