Deleting high score messages

[Tony Finch]

Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting a little lost here. Denis
>puts rules and scores in spam.assassin.prefs.conf and says they work fine.
>Tony says that it can't, which does rather contradict Denis's empirical
>evidence. And removing the read_scoreonly_config() call will result in the
>spam.assassin.prefs.conf file not being used at all, which surely can't be
>right.

If you look at SpamAssassin::init (called from compile_now) you'll
see that it loads the userprefs file along with the rest of the
configuration. (I didn't see this earlier.) At this time additional rules
*are* accepted. MailScanner then calls read_scoreonly_config which loads
the userprefs file a second time, but this time rules are not accepted
and it reports errors in debug mode (which fooled me). This second step
is redundant.

Tony.
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