File layout

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 23 19:29:24 IST 2002


At 19:13 23/08/2002, you wrote:
>I have been playing with MailScanner and Spam Assassin on a relay server
>before my main mail server.
>
>First, is there a reason that the RPM doesn't use eg /etc/mailscanner for
>all the conf files instead of the current /usr/local/MailScanner/etc  ?

Not particularly.

>I can move the files and get it to work ok, but curious why it is different
>to what I am used to.

Just 'cause that's the way I built it :-)

>Does the spam.whitelist.conf effectively replace the SA whitelist?

SA can auto-whitelist addresses, and so it doesn't quite behave the same as
the MS whitelist.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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