Include files option in spam.assassin.prefs

[Rick Cooper]

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> Behalf Of Stephe Campbell
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:53 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Include files option in spam.assassin.prefs
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>
> 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?
>

I use bigevillist, FVGT,OACYS, backhair, weeds, chickenpox,
popcorn (and some of my own). They seem to do a good job 99.99%
of the time, I get a few FPs from the bigevillist, but I just
prune those out as they come.


> 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
<SNIP>

Put them in /etc/mail/spamassassin as xxx.cf. so weeds might be
/etc/mail/spamassassin/weeds.cf, popcorn
/etc/mail/spamassassin/popcorn.cf. SA will parse anything located
in /etc/mail/spamassassin ending with .cf as a config file.

Then replace the file with new contents when ever they change.

Rick


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