MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm

[Derek Winkler]

Alternate suggestion:

Config parameter

Local Custom Config = <path to custom config file>

This can then be preserved across upgrades by upgrade_MailScanner_conf.

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of James A. Pattie
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 4:27 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm
>
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> Julian Field wrote:
> | At 19:29 22/03/2004, you wrote:
> |
> |> As a tarball user, I would also like to see this change.
> |>
> |> Preferrably including something in the MailScanner/etc directory.
> |
> |
> | 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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