Spamassassin config

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Apr 28 20:56:27 IST 2003


Done.
I've also added a comment saying that this has pretty much been superceded
by the "Advanced SpamAssassin Settings" in MailScanner.conf.

At 20:23 28/04/2003, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>In the spam.assassin.prefs.conf i saw some confusing stuff:
>
>#
># JKF 26/03/2003
># If your root filesystem is filling up because SpamAssassin is putting
># large databases in /.spamassassin or /root/.spamassassin, you can move
># them using the following lines to point to their new locations
>#
>
>auto_whitelist_path        /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
>auto_whitelist_file_mode   0644
>bayes_path                 /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
>bayes_file_mode            0644
>
>The last part is a part of the filenames that will be generated.
>So the payed path isnt actually the path, its more, its also the
>prefix of the files... =) Perhaps add a line to explain that.
>
>As i read it in the config i created two dirs, bayed and auto-whitelist :)
>
>-rw-------    1 root     root       318004 Apr 28 21:17 bayes_journal
>-rw-------    1 root     root         2663 Apr 28 21:17 bayes_msgcount
>-rw-------    1 root     root       417792 Apr 28 21:09 bayes_seen
>-rw-------    1 root     root      7909376 Apr 28 21:09 bayes_toks
>
>If you leave out the last part it will create
>(bayes_path                 /var/spool/spamassassin/)
>
>-rw-------    1 root     root       318004 Apr 28 21:17 _journal
>-rw-------    1 root     root         2663 Apr 28 21:17 _msgcount
>-rw-------    1 root     root       417792 Apr 28 21:09 _seen
>-rw-------    1 root     root      7909376 Apr 28 21:09 _toks
>
>
>Also the default filemode in the config are listed 644, the ones
>in my old dir had 600, why not stick to 600 ?
>
>Its only cosmetical, but we'd rather make the config fool proof to avoid
>questions on the list in a later stage :)
>
>Thanks,
>Raymond.

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