many users

[David Relson]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:27:59 -0700
Chris Wilkes wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 08:13:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> > 
> > Setting up individual user accounts might not be practical. I can
> > easily enough add them all with /bin/false as their login shell
> > and not have an issue with security. But now I have a lot of files
> > to manage.
> 
> You should look into your mail server's support for virtual users. 
> What I've done under qmail-ldap (that's qmail with the LDAP patches)
> that has one "real" user and all the user's directories are stored
> under
>   /var/qmail/maildirs/ou/uid/
> where "ou" and "uid" are an individual's LDAP entries.
> 
> When an account receives its first email a script is run that sets up
> the /var/qmail/maildirs/ou/uid/.bogofilter directory with a default
> wordlist file.  Also a .qmail file is generated like so:
>   | condtomaildir ./Maildir/.spam/ /usr/bin/bogofilter -d \
>     /var/qmail/maildirs/OOO/uuuuu/.bogofilter
> 
> >From there its up to you on how to manage it, but 10 users is the
> >same
> as 1000 in this case.  Plus now you can easily do things like
>   cd /var/qmail/maildirs
>   for i in */*/.bogofilter/wordlist.db; do
>     echo -n "$i "; bogoutil -w $i .MSG_COUNT | tail -1;
>   done
> 
> The trick is in the use of the "-d new/wordlist/dir" switch.
> 
> Chris

Chris and Tom,

Unless I miss my guess, individual wordlists are very simple.  

By default bogofilter uses environment variables $HOME or
$BOGOFILTER_DIR to determine where to find/put the wordlist.  In the
simplest case, bogofilter will put the wordlist in directory
~/.bogofilter (where the value of ~ is defined by $HOME).  Alternatively
if $BOGOFILTER_DIR is defined, then $BOGOFILTER_DIR/wordlist.db will be
used.

Assuming your environment is set up sanely, bogofilter should just work
for multiple users.  There's no need for tricks.

HTH,

David