Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:16:56 -0400 - Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???>:

> I would like to use Spamassassin to blacklist some addresses.
> My mail reader is mutt and my MTA is exm4. I do not run a DE
> and I use fluxbox as my window manager.
>
> What appears to be the official guide says to create the file
> ~/spamassassin/blackwhite.inf and load the list of
> blacklist addreses to it. The approach I used some years ago was
> instead to create ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs to hold the
> blacklist. None of this has any effect now.
>
> The items in the blacklist have the format *@domain.com
>
> The .spamassassin directory is owned by me and has permission
> 751 and the user_prefs and blackwhite.inc files in it are also
> owned by me and have permission 644 I belong to the
> devian-spamd group. I restarted spamd, but I believe doing so
> is unncessary.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>

Reading at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/README :

...
- $USER_HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs:

      User preferences file.  If it does not exist, one of the
    default prefs file from above will be copied here for the
    user to edit later, if they wish.

    Unless you're using spamd, there is no difference in
    interpretation between the rules file and the preferences file, so
    users can add new rules for their own use in the
    "~/.spamassassin/user_prefs" file, if they like.  (spamd disables
    this for security and increased speed.)
...

Maybe this causing the problem?

Regards
alexus


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