Virtual home-directories

[N.J. Mann]

In message <20090916130049.2cd4aae8 at gumby.homeunix.com>,
	RW (rwmaillists at googlemail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:11:50 -0400
> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> > Bogofilter looks for a system config file in /etc/ and for the user
> > config file in ~/.bogofilter/ 
> 
> ~/.bogofilter.cf according to the manpage
> 
> > Since you're looking for per-user
> > configuration, you can use the user config file directory.
> 
> I'm talking about virtual user configuration rather than unix users.
> 
> As I understand it, a login shell sets HOME to the home directory set in
> the password file and thereafter the shell treats ~ as the current
> value of HOME. SpamAssassin follows this convention by keeping its
> user data under HOME. So if you use some kind of script to fetch the
> mail, you can set HOME to something like: "/var/db/mailhome/${USER}"
> for virtual users. 
> 
> When I tried this with Bogofilter I found that it only half works, it
> uses HOME for wordlist.db, but ignores it for .bogofilter.cf

Since lunchtime is dragging today I decided to see what I could find...

Is  --user-config-file  what you are looking for?  (Found by looking at
the source code and running `bogofilter -h`.)


Cheers,
       Nick.
--