MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm

[James A. Pattie]

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Julian Field wrote:
| At 19:29 22/03/2004, you wrote:
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|> As a tarball user, I would also like to see this change.
|>
|> Preferrably including something in the MailScanner/etc directory.
|
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| It shouldn't go in etc as it's not  a configuration file, it's executable
| code. /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner would be the right place in my
| opinion. If not right, then the best we've easily got.

Using Debian as an example, they have modified programs (Horde, etc.) to look
for user configuration settings in /etc/<packagename>/... instead of putting
them in a config file in the web tree, etc.

It makes it much easier to look at /etc/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm or something
similiar.  You might even use a directory and any filenames in that directory
would be the files to require.

Ex:  /etc/MailScanner/CustomConfig/MailWatch.pm

would then cause a 'require MailScanner/MailWatch.pm' to be executed in the
CustomConfig.pm module.

Using the directory approach would allow any new programs to just touch a file
in the include directory and voila, their enhancement is available the next time
MailScanner reloads.  Now getting a config override so we don't have to hack on
the MailScanner.conf file directly, but say source and overload the values from
this directory would be even cooler. :)

|
| I'll try to remember to write this tomorrow. Had enough for tonight (fixing
| bugs in binhex decoder).
|
|


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