What to do about existing spamassassin

[Julian Field]

At 14:16 23/08/2003, you wrote:
>What about user specific whitelists, since SA is not working the same way,
>.spamassassin/spammassain_user_prefs will be ignored. What should I do to
>maintain those lists?

Take a look in CustomConfig.pm (in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner) and
you will find a section in there that provides per-user and per-domain
white and black lists. Look for the big blocks of comments and have a read.
It only actually takes 2 minutes to get it going.


>Chris Mason
>masonc at masonc.com
>Yahoo IM: netconcepts_anguilla at yahoo.com
>264 497-5670 Fax: 264 497-8463
>www.netconcepts.ai
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Antony Stone
> > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 8:40 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: What to do about existing spamassassin
> >
> >
> > On Saturday 23 August 2003 1:23 pm, Chris Mason wrote:
> >
> > > I had spammassasin installed to remove spam sent to me
> > only, using an entry
> > > in  .procmailrc to pipe mail to SA. Now that I have
> > installed MailScanner,
> > > should I remove the SA entry in .procmailrc?
> >
> > You don't have to, but you probably should.
> >
> > Assuming you want MailScanner to handle SpamAssassin
> > processing for you (and
> > you choose whether or not this is how you want it to work),
> > the only reason
> > for leaving SA in your procmail setup is if you want to do
> > some specific SA
> > processing on mail which comes to you only (but you should be
> > able to achieve
> > exactly the same thing using MailScanner's rulesets), or if
> > you want to see
> > stuff like the full SA report, which MailScanner will not do for you.
> >
> > Leaving SA in your procmail setup won't do any harm - but it
> > might cause you
> > a bit of confusion as you play with MailScanner and learn
> > what it can do, if
> > there's a chance that the mail you get in your mailbox has
> > been processed by
> > a separate set of SA rules afterwards.
> >
> > Antony.
> >
> > --
> >
> > 90% of network problems are routing problems.
> > 9 of the remaining 10% are routing problems in the other direction.
> > The remaining 1% might be something else, but check the
> > routing anyway.
> >

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