config file options

[Julian Field]

At 16:00 21/05/2003, you wrote:
>Hi Julian,
>
>is there a "clean" way to add configuration variables? That is, I want to add
>a couple of functions in CustomConfig.pm but would rather have configuration
>options in MailScanner.conf... that is... avoiding things like:
>   my $WhitelistDir = '/etc/MailScanner/spam.bydomain/whitelist';
>   my $BlacklistDir = '/etc/MailScanner/spam.bydomain/blacklist';
>in CustomConfig.pm
>
>Is this possible or the only way is modifying Config.pm _and_ ConfigDefs.pl?

You don't have to touch Config.pm, just define the variable in
ConfigDefs.pl. You can then get its value with
MailScanner::Config::Value('yourvariable')
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Julian Field
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