bigevil, backhair... STILL confused

[Martin Hepworth]

Jeff

make sure the .cf files are readable by the MailScanner user you defined
in MailScanner.conf..

should pick them up, does on my system..


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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Jeff Earickson wrote:
> Gang,
>
>   Back in late December there was discussion on the list about
> installing and having SA find local rule sets like bigevil.cf, etc.
> Bobby Rose offered the following hack to SA.pm to get extra
> rulesets to be found:
>
> Before
>     $settings{dont_copy_prefs} = 1; # Removes need for home directory
>     $prefs = MailScanner::Config::Value('spamassassinprefsfile');
> After
>     $settings{dont_copy_prefs} = 1; # Removes need for home directory
>     $settings{site_rules_filename} = "/etc/mail/spamassassin";
>     $prefs = MailScanner::Config::Value('spamassassinprefsfile');
>
> In private emails with Julian, he warned against this hack.  I've
> also discovered in the list archives that (maybe) the setting
> "SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir" is supposed to handle this.
>
> Well, I have "SpamAssassin Site Rules Dir" defined as
> /etc/mail/spamassassin.  In there I have local.cf as a symlink to
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf, plus the files
> bigevil.cf, backhair.cf, and antidrug.cf.  Without Rose's hack,
> the bigevil/backhair/antidrug rules never get touched ("ls -lu")
> or used.  Is there some other MailScanner.conf setting I have missed?
> Does this work for other people???  Setup: Solaris 9, MS 4.28.1,
> SA 2.63.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College

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