Include files option in spam.assassin.prefs

[Randal, Phil]

oops, can't type.

/etc/mail/spamassassin

and weedsonly.cf, not weeds.cf.

The .cf files come from
http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm, in case
anyone is bewildfered and missed my earlier post.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randal, Phil
> Sent: 19 December 2003 15:57
> To: 'MailScanner mailing list'
> Subject: RE: Include files option in spam.assassin.prefs
>
>
> When you run
>
>   spamassassin -D -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint
>
> it lists near the start the directories it includes .cf files from.
>
> Normally, you'd expect to put additional site-wide rules in
> /etc/mail/spamassin
>
> We're using bigevil.cf, popcornonly.cf, weeds.cf,
> nov2rules.cf and Obfu1.cf plus a few other custom rules here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Stephe Campbell
> > Sent: 19 December 2003 15:53
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Include files option in spam.assassin.prefs
> >
> >
> > Mr. Randal provided a link to a list that provided a lot of
> > SA rules. I
> > would assume that it would be a good idea to review them
> > before inserting
> > any of them into my files, but anyone who has looked at the
> list will
> > realize that the list is very long and REGEXP is cryptically
> > mesmerizing to
> > view. Thank you very much Mr. Randal.
> >
> > My questions are short -
> >
> > Has any one tried this list of insertions as provided and
> > what were the
> > results?
> >
> > Is there a way to "#include" this file without copy/paste
> or any other
> > common way to get these entries into the
> spam.assassin.prefs file? The
> > "#include" option would provide a great way to maintain or
> > test this without
> > deleting and repasting every time the list changes, if it
> > were to be used.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve Campbell
> > campbell at cnpapers.com
> > Charleston Newspapers
> >
>