Use of DCC Clarification

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu May 8 18:33:22 IST 2003


At 18:20 08/05/2003, you wrote:
>/usr/local/bin on my systems

But should the entry read
         dcc_path /usr/local/bin
or
         dcc_path /usr/local/bin/dccproc
?


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>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.
> > >> > --
> > >> > 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.
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> > > 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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