SpamAssassin Config files {Scanned by HJMS}

[Jim Dickenson]

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Jim Dickenson
mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com

Computers for Marketing Corporation
http://www.cfmc.com/



> From: "Furnish, Trever G" <TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:34:18 -0500
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Config files {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>> There are still many options in the MS.conf file and I do not
>> know if they
>> override the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file or if the sa config file
>> overrides the items in the MS.conf file.
>
> What are you refering to by "MS.conf" file?  If you mean MailScanner.conf,
> those values apply to MailScanner, not to SA.  And I'm not sure how they
> would "override" the settings in spam.assassin.prefs.conf since there are no
> attribute names in common.  If you want to customize the behavior of SA as
> it is used by MS, then the settings you would normally put into a
> SA-specific file should be put into spam.assassin.prefs.conf.
>

In the MailScanner.conf file there are options like:

Required SpamAssassin Score = 5
SpamAssassin Auto Whitelist = no
SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin

I am guessing that options like this override, modify or otherwise change
how SA would work if not run via MailScanner.


>> Also does anyone know about the user specific preferences?
>
> You mean like a per-user bayes database?  I think you would have to jump
> through lots of hoops to make that happen but others have asked the same
> question so perhaps someone else will describe what they're doing...
>

Running SA via spamd and procmail this was straight-forward. The MailScanner
option "SpamAssassin User State Dir" seems to imply this has something to do
with user specific configurations.

I have a couple co-workers that have there own white lists, as an example.
This is the primary option I was looking for a way to set on a per user
basis.

Thanks for all your answers!

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Dickenson [mailto:dickenson at CFMC.COM]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:37 AM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Config files {Scanned by HJMS}
>>
>>
>> Thanks for that tip. That gets rid of part of the problem.
>>
>> There are still many options in the MS.conf file and I do not
>> know if they
>> override the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file or if the sa config file
>> overrides the items in the MS.conf file.
>>
>> Also does anyone know about the user specific preferences?
>> --
>> Jim Dickenson
>> mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com
>>
>> Computers for Marketing Corporation
>> http://www.cfmc.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: "Furnish, Trever G" <TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:06:44 -0500
>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Config files {Scanned by HJMS}
>>>
>>> When spamassassin is used by mailscanner, the
>> spam.assassin.prefs.conf file
>>> in the MailScanner configuration directory is what matters.
>>  When you, for
>>> example, spamassassin -D --lint on the command line
>> different files get
>>> used.  I would suggest (assuming a typical sendmail install
>> and MailScanner
>>> config under /etc/MailScanner) that you do the following:
>>>
>>> mv /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf \
>>>  /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf-dist
>>> ln -s /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf \
>>>  /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
>>>
>>> That way when you run sa from the command-line, the
>> mailscanner prefs file
>>> will still get used.
>>>
>>> -t.
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jim Dickenson [mailto:dickenson at CFMC.COM]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:57 AM
>>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>> Subject: SpamAssassin Config files {Scanned by HJMS}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am totally confused as to where the various config files
>> for SA are
>>>> located when using MS.
>>>>
>>>> In /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf there are various
>>>> options that seem to
>>>> set some SA options. Additionally there are these lines that
>>>> point to config
>>>> files as well.
>>>>
>>>> SpamAssassin Prefs File = %etc-dir%/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
>>>>
>>>> SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I was running SA via procmail there were various files in
>>>> /etc/mail/spamassassin, for system-wide options, and then in
>>>> /var/lib/spamassassin there were directories in the form of
>>>> <username>.prefs
>>>> that had user_prefs as well as other stuff that were specific
>>>> to a given
>>>> user.
>>>>
>>>> I have searched the mail list archive but got more confused.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please explain, or point me to an explanation,
>>>> about how SA gets
>>>> configured when run via MS?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> --
>>>> Jim Dickenson
>>>> mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com
>>>>
>>>> Computers for Marketing Corporation
>>>> http://www.cfmc.com/
>>>>
>>