Re: sa ignoring whitelist_from in user_prefs

According to Matt Kettler:
> 9 times out of 10, this is caused by someone who's calling SA at the MTA
> layer, but they're trying to use the user_prefs in the recipients home
> directory.
>
> SA has no reliable way to determine who the recipient is, given the
> content of the message it receives. Even if it could, it would not know
> if that user has a local account or not.
>
> Therefore, unless told otherwise with spamc -u, SA uses the userprefs
> that belongs to the userid that executed the call to spamassassin.
>
> Most MTA layer integrations wind up always calling SA as the same system
> account user that the MTA runs as, resulting in only one user_prefs ever
> being used.

Yikes! Somehow I didn't catch this. I'm using spamass-milter and it
has a "-u" option for just this situation.

Many thanks!!

Rich