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 Anthony Peacock
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:10 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.
>
>
[...]
> > 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)?
>
> I am not too sure it does.  SpamAssassin works with the concept of
> two files, a 'site' config and a 'user' config.  Some configuration
> settings should go in the 'site' config and others in a 'user'
> config.
>
> The site_rules_path/mailscanner.cf file should be for site wide
> config options.
>
> The spam.assassin.prefs file should be for options that are only
> applicable when running MailScanner.
>

How about this. Don't put the spamassassin.prefs.conf in the normal
site_rules dir at all.

When Ms loads create a new Sa object, get the site_rules_path and read all
the .cf files into a variable and reading into it spamassassin.prefs.conf
last. Now destroy the original object and create a new object setting the
new({config_text => MSRules}) to the value of that variable. This, according
to the docs, will cause SA to ignore all site and user prefs stuff and use
the value of config_text instead. I don't think MailScanner uses the user
prefs anyway. Once that is done you should be able to destroy the original
variable and free the memory and the SA package would be using what it
always did. This should result in spamassassin.prefs.conf in being the
overriding site rules provider while MailScanner is running and completely
ignored when sa-* is run from the command line. If Julian has time to test
it that would be great, otherwise I could get to it sometime this
week-weekend.

Ref:
http://search.cpan.org/~jmason/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.0/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin
.pm

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