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..or, as the user concerned, to make it nice and simple:<br />
<br />
mkdir ~/.spamassassin<br />
touch ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs<wbr /><br />
<br />
and the messages will not occur;)
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..or, as the user concerned, to make it nice and simple:

mkdir ~/.spamassassin
touch ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs

and the messages will not occur;)

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when I run <br />
spamassassin -D --lint<br />
<br />
I got messages like <br />
<br />
[21999] dbg: config: using &quot;/etc/mail/spamassassin&quot; for site rules dir<br />
[21999] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/loc<wbr />al.cf<br />
[21999] info: config: can not determine userstate dir<br />
[21999] warn: config: could not find userprefs file<br />
<br />
so what is suppose the last 2 lines means ?<br />
<br />
I run the command as root and the 2 lines are not there. Is spamassassin suppose to be run as root ?
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when I run 
spamassassin -D --lint

I got messages like 

[21999] dbg: config: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir
[21999] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
[21999] info: config: can not determine userstate dir
[21999] warn: config: could not find userprefs file

so what is suppose the last 2 lines means ?

I run the command as root and the 2 lines are not there. Is spamassassin suppose to be run as root ?

spamassassin returned message

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