Use of DCC Clarification

[Mike Kercher]

/usr/local/bin on my systems

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of
Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 12:19 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Use of DCC Clarification


At 17:37 08/05/2003, Gerry Doris wrote:
> > At 23:31 07/05/2003, you wrote:
> >>On Wed, 7 May 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> >> > Can you just do a quick test for me, and set dcc_path to a path 
> >> > that
> >> > *doesn't* exist please?
> >> >
> >> > I want to make sure that no error messages are logged anywhere, 
> >> > as otherwise the logging is going to get very noisy if it gets an 
> >> > error
> >> for
> >> > every message.
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> >> > Julian Field
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> >>I couldn't find any sign of an error message with an incorrect 
> >>dcc_path parameter.  There's no messages to root, nothing in 
> >>/var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog and no mention in the headers.  
> >>DCC checking just  doesn't happen.
> >
> > I have changed the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file for the next 
> > release so that this rule is no longer set to 0.
> > --
> > Julian Field
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>
>Just so we're clear on this...
>
>You're going to change the existing DCC rule so that it isn't set to 0

Done.

>  and
>you're going to add the dcc_path statement?  Both of those seem to be 
>required to make DCC work.

Haven't done that yet.
What should I set it to for a normal dcc installation? (I don't use dcc myself
yet)


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