user_prefs file

[Julian Field]

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Exactly which comments and what wording would you prefer?

At 22:03 28/09/2004, you wrote:
>You should modify the config file comments as it is misleading. I read a
>bunch of posts from other sites with admins who misinterpeted the
>comments as well.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:51 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: user_prefs file
>
>
>This has been mentioned many times here. MailScanner always calls
>SpamAssassin as the same user. The real username to use would only be
>known
>at delivery time, which is long after MailScanner has got out of the
>way. I
>don't interfere with the delivery process at all as it is far too
>complicated for most users to be able to setup without lots of help :-)
>
>The things that people usually want to configure per-user are
>configurable
>via MailScanner instead. This includes the score thresholds and actions,
>and the white and black lists. And if you want to read these from an
>SQL,
>LDAP or other storage system, you can do all of that with simple Custom
>Functions.

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