Define ham and spam for spamassassin

ashceryth

The reason for the permission error messages is that your spam directory is not writable for the group. Without write permissions the .eml files cannot be removed by inotify-spamlearn running as amavis (member of kopano group).

Just run chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam as well as chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/ham and it should be working.

P.S. Having the .eml files world read and writable seems no to be optimal :-)

BMWfan

@ashceryth but inotify-spamlearn removes them already. I stopped only the process thats why i could send you the commandline output.

ashceryth

@BMWfan

Hm, that’s strange. The log messages indicate that the files can’t be removed. Are you sure inotify-spamlearn is currently running as amavis? Are you still getting the errors?

BMWfan

@ashceryth sorry. You are right. I’ve executed now the two suggested lines.

chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/ham
chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/ham

Depending on this failures

Jan 15 17:56:33 server inotify-spamlearn.py[19673]: bayes: expire_old_tokens: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /var/lib/spamassassin/bayes.lock.server.serverprofi24.de.19887 for /var/lib/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied
Jan 15 17:56:33 server inotify-spamlearn.py[19673]: plugin: eval failed: bayes: (in learn) locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /var/lib/spamassassin/bayes.lock.server.server.de.19887 for /var/lib/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied
Jan 15 17:56:33 server inotify-spamlearn.py[19673]: ERROR: the Bayes learn function returned an error, please re-run with -D for more information at /usr/bin/sa-learn line 500.

i executed the following:

cd /var/lib/
chmod -R 777 spamassassin

The kopano-spamd sa_group is nevertheless kopano and the inotify-spamlearn service is running as amavis user and amavis group. But it seems to work:

/var/log/kopano/spamd.log

2019-01-15 18:22:18,025 - spamd - INFO - Learning message as SPAM, entryid: 00000000A497753E7B1B4CE3894BB06ABB7C1F45010000000500000003DDF8D9711C4B69951C3DFB80B1E72E00000000
2019-01-15 18:22:26,102 - spamd - INFO - Learning message as SPAM, entryid: 00000000A497753E7B1B4CE3894BB06ABB7C1F450100000005000000FB5BCDFF29C04459B703EE1DB71C683500000000
2019-01-15 18:22:33,175 - spamd - INFO - Learning message as SPAM, entryid: 00000000A497753E7B1B4CE3894BB06ABB7C1F45010000000500000081D6E0E8508D4CF28F88A973162719C100000000

/var/log/syslog

Jan 15 18:22:23 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20069]: INFO Processing [Inotify] /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam/F80C680BD83440B8AA34556506BDC63D.eml: Learned tokens from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examined)
Jan 15 18:22:23 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20069]: INFO Removing file: /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam/F80C680BD83440B8AA34556506BDC63D.eml
Jan 15 18:22:30 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20069]: INFO Processing [Inotify] /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam/CB8A83041D954CCB873E060165292F36.eml: Learned tokens from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examined)
Jan 15 18:22:30 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20069]: INFO Removing file: /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam/CB8A83041D954CCB873E060165292F36.eml
Jan 15 18:22:37 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20069]: INFO Processing [Inotify] /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam/305A9D2637324400900B051A263CE4E3.eml: Learned tokens from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examined)
Jan 15 18:22:37 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20069]: INFO Removing file: /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam/305A9D2637324400900B051A263CE4E3.eml

I want to let inotify-spamlearn log into the /var/log/kopano/spamd.log file, that’s why i changed in /etc/kopano/inotify-spamlearn.cfg this line:

# empty means log to console, use journalctl to read the logs when run from systemd service
logfile = /var/log/kopano/spamd.log

I put amavis in the kopano group with gpasswd -a amavis kopano but it’s still not functioning:

Jan 15 18:54:19 server inotify-spamlearn.py[20669]: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/kopano/spamd.log'

$ /var/log/kopano# ls -la
total 80
drwxr-x---  2 kopano kopano 4096 Jan 15 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root   root   4096 Jan 15 02:16 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  334 Jan 15 05:19 dagent.log
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  530 Jan 13 08:31 dagent.log.1
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  254 Jan  4 21:23 dagent.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  237 Dec 30 20:41 dagent.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano 7393 Jan 15 17:49 server.log
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano 8225 Jan 13 17:31 server.log.1
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  420 Jan  5 20:08 server.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano 3575 Dec 30 20:40 server.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano 1229 Dec 22 19:43 server.log.4.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano 9996 Jan 15 18:22 spamd.log
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano 1148 Jan  5 20:08 spamd.log.2.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  530 Dec 30 12:10 spamd.log.3.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 kopano kopano  470 Dec 28 11:39 spamd.log.4.gz

do you have a idea how i could fix this?

ashceryth

Hi

@BMWfan said in Define ham and spam for spamassassin:

cd /var/lib/
chmod -R 777 spamassassin

Every time you do this a puppy dies. In my humble opinion setting permissions to 777 is an absolute no-no. Your command makes the directory and everything below world read and writable. Are you sure you want that? :-)

do you have a idea how i could fix this?

The group has no write permission on the log file.

chmod g+w spamd.log

BMWfan

@ashceryth thanks for your help and your honestly opinion.
now, the inotifty-spamlearn log entries are in the /var/log/kopano/spamd.log

I checked the rights before i set chmod 777:

/var/lib/spamassassin# ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  6 debian-spamd debian-spamd 4096 Jan  8 20:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 50 root         root         4096 Jan  5 20:06 ..
drwx------  3 debian-spamd debian-spamd 4096 Dec 20 14:00 .spamassassin
drwxr-xr-x  6 debian-spamd debian-spamd 4096 Jan 15 03:04 3.004002
-rw-r--r--  1 root         root            0 Jan  8 19:55 bayes
drwxr-xr-x  3 debian-spamd debian-spamd 4096 Dec 20 14:01 compiled
drwx------  3 debian-spamd debian-spamd 4096 Dec 20 14:00 sa-update-keys

I set now all rights back to this ^^.
How and where could i set the permission that a file like in this example called bayes.lock.server.server.de.19887 under /var/lib/spamassassin/ has to be created by a user (amavis) which is in the same group but not the owner of this folder in which the file has to be created? I think the name of the file is dynamic assigned why i can not create a file via touch and assign this file the needed rights.

ashceryth

Hi @BMWfan

The directory is owned by user and group debian-spamd. As I am not using Amavis/SpamAssassin I cannot check myself - but is user amavis member of group debian-spamd? If that’s the case you just have to fix the group permissions. However, I suggest not to mess too much with permissions.

El Muchacho

Took a while to figure out the right settings for my debian9 …
But now all works as expected.

My config for inotify-spamlearn:

in /etc/systemd/inotify-spamlearn.service set

run_as_group = amavis

now set the rights for spam and ham folders

chown -R kopano:amavis /var/lib/kopano/spamd

and in order to delete the learned mails it’s neccessary that group amavis has the rights to delete the learned mails

chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam
chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/ham

finally we need to reload the daemons for systemctl

systemctl daemons-reload

and restart the service inotify-spamlearn

systemctl restart inotify-spamlearn

that’s all ;)

thctlo

@El-Muchacho

Thank you for the info.

chown -R kopano:amavis /var/lib/kopano/spamd
and
chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam
chmod g+w /var/lib/kopano/spamd/ham

in one liner :
install -o kopano -g amavis -m 2770 -d /var/lib/kopano/spamd -d /var/lib/kopano/spamd/spam -d /var/lib/kopano/spamd/ham

Does the “World” need read access in the spamd folder ?