ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Rick Cooper]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:58 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.
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> On 22 Nov 2005, at 12:00, Rick Cooper wrote:
> >
> > Julian, this code works :
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > use Mail::SpamAssassin ;
> > my $test = Mail::SpamAssassin->new();
> > my $siterules = $test->{site_rules_filename};
> > $siterules ||= $test->first_existing_path
> > (@Mail::SpamAssassin::site_rules_path);
> > print "Site Rules Path : $siterules\n";
>
> Presumably, as I need a directory, I don't want to do the
> site_rules_filename bit. So I end up with just
>
> use Mail::SpamAssassin;
> $a = new Mail::SpamAssassin;
> print "site rules is \"";
> print $a->first_existing_path (@Mail::SpamAssassin::site_rules_path);
> print "\"\n";
>
> If I create a mailscanner.cf in there, and put everything from
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf in it, and just softlink that mailscanner.cf
> and spam.assassin.prefs.conf, then does this do the Right Thing(TM)?
>

Why not just ln -f -s /MailScannerPath/etc/spamassassin.prefs.conf
site_rules_path/mailscanner.cf?


> So people expecting to find spam.assassin.prefs.conf will still have
> it, but the real file will be in mailscanner.cf in the
> site_rules_path directory.
>
> When they upgrade by RPM, what should I do? Once they have the
> mailscanner.cf in place, it's easy. It's the first upgrade to the new
> structure that I have to handle carefully. Any ideas?
>

Wouldn't the above handle this also? At the very least the rpm install
scripts could add the link. Or When MailScanner loads it could look for a
soft link at site_rules_path/mailscanner.cf and create it then.

Rick


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