[Pkg-exim4-users] setting up spamassassin

[Ross Boylan]

The commented out material in 40_exim4_config_check_data includes
   spam = nobody

When I tried this, I got

Jun 21 18:31:59 iron spamd[598]: spamd: connection from localhost
[127.0.0.1] at port 52711 
Jun 21 18:31:59 iron spamd[598]: spamd: setuid to nobody succeeded 
Jun 21 18:31:59 iron spamd[598]: spamd: creating
default_prefs: /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs 
Jun 21 18:32:00 iron spamd[598]: mkdir /var/spool/exim4/.spamassassin:
Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1486 
Jun 21 18:32:00 iron spamd[598]: config: cannot write
to /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory 
Jun 21 18:32:00 iron spamd[598]: spamd: failed to create readable
default_prefs: /nonexistent/.spamassassin/user_prefs 
Jun 21 18:32:00 iron spamd[598]: spamd: checking message
<20060622012120.11944.qmail at web30611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> for
nobody:65534 
Jun 21 18:32:08 iron spamd[598]: mkdir /nonexistent: Permission denied
at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1486 
Jun 21 18:32:08 iron spamd[598]: locker: safe_lock: cannot create
lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.mutex: No such file
or directory 
Jun 21 18:32:09 iron spamd[598]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist
file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create
lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.mutex: No such file
or directory 
Jun 21 18:32:09 iron spamd[598]: spamd: clean message (0.0/5.0) for
nobody:65534 in 9.3 seconds, 3071 bytes. 
Jun 21 18:32:09 iron spamd[598]: spamd: result: . 0 -
scantime=9.3,size=3071,user=nobody,uid=65534,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=52711,mid=<20060622012120.11944.qmail at web30611.mail.mud.yahoo.com>,autolearn=disabled

Is this supposed to work?  The exim spec says "If you do not want to
scan for a particular user, but rather use the SpamAssassin system-wide
default profile, you can scan for an unkown user, or simply use
"nobody."  Is this getting messed up because Debian actually has a user
nobody?

I switched it to spam = Debian-exim, and it seems to run without
complaint.  However, it isn't adding any headers.  I have
CHECK_DATA_LOCAL_ACL_FILE = /etc/exim4/local_data_acl
in conf.d/main/00_local

and that file has
# message only writes message of all conditions pass
# not what I want
   warn
     condition = ${if < {$message_size}{50k}}
     spam = Debian-exim:true
     add_header = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\
               X-Spam_score_int: $spam_score_int\n\
               X-Spam_bar: $spam_bar\n\
               X-Spam_report: $spam_report
     condition = ${if > {$spam_score_int}{50}
     add_header = X-Spam-Status: Yes

It might be relevant that the message arrived with SA headers from a
host listed on SA's trusted_networks.

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