user_prefs file

[Jeff Graves]

# The per-user files (bayes, auto-whitelist, user_prefs) are looked
# for here and in ~/.spamassassin/. Note the files are mutable.
# If this is unset then no extra places are searched for.
# If using Postfix, you probably want to set this as shown in the example
# line at the end of this comment, and do
#      mkdir /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
#      chown postfix.postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin
#SpamAssassin User State Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin

When I first read this, I thought that MailScanner would look for the
user_prefs or whitelist files in my home directory and in another specified
directory (wasn't really sure how this would be implemented but didn't need
it anyhow). I don't know, the combination of "per-user" and
"~/.spamassassin/" made me think I could set up per-user rules easily by
putting user_prefs files in the users home directories. All I'm saying, is
that before I posted I searched archives for user_prefs (which returned no
relevant posts) and searched google a bit and it seemed like I had a simple
config problem - not that it wasn't possible.

Here's another post from someone who read it the same way:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_20904277.html

At any rate, I don't really even need this functionality...I had just wanted
to test what increasing the scores for a few rules would do to suspected
spam on my email before I implemented it site-wide.

Jeff Graves, MCSA
Customer Support Engineer
Image Source, Inc.
10 Mill Street
Bellingham, MA 02019

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-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:45 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: user_prefs file


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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