possible to locate MailScanner configuration files somewhere other that /etc/MailScanner?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri May 14 10:32:54 IST 2004


At 21:03 13/05/2004, you wrote:
>Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>At the top of MailScanner.conf, I have added:
>>
>># Rulesets directory containing system ".rules" files
>>%rules-dir% = /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules
>>
>># Rulesets directory containing local ".rules" files     <--- mine
>>%localrules-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/rules                <--- mine
>>
>>Then I put my local rules files in this directory instead of
>>/opt/MailScanner,
>>so they don't get stomped during upgrades.  I make references to
>>%localrules-dir% as needed elsewhere in the .conf file.  I've urged
>>Julian to make this change part of the standard MailScanner.conf
>>file.  Hopefully you get the picture for customization here.
>>
>>Jeff Earickson
>>Colby College
>>
>
>Hi Jeff,
>
>That's great. What I'm after is a way of having MailScanner.conf located
>somewhere else. Currently, it's /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf, but I
>would like it to be (for example)
>/etc/real_MailScanner/MailScanner.conf. That way the stupid Ensim
>control panel can massacre the "decoy" version and leave my
>perfectly-working one alone.

Edit check_mailscanner, it's in there.
--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
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