SpamAssassin Config files {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

> 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.

> 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...

> -----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/
> >>
>