ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,

> Julian Field writes:
> >>> 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 all I need to do is add a link to spam.assassin.prefs.conf in 
> > site_rules_path/mailscanner.cf ? 
> > 
> > This sounds like this whole entire problem could be solved with 1 
> > soft link. 
> > 
> > Is that really all I need to do?
> 
> I don't think so, time and again Matt has insisted on NOT soft linking
> sa-prefs.conf to local.cf (and if i understand correctly any *.cf
> file) 
> 
> a. Due to the problems already discussed in this thread
> b. SA probably using the same file twice, unless mailscanner ceases to
> use sa.prefs.conf 
> 
> But, i am obviously not Matt (and am quite likely to misunderstand
> sa's internal working) and also am sure he prefers to speak for
> himself. 

Dhawal,

You are right of course.  I knew there was a reason for keeping them 
separate, I just couldn't rememember it.  I was hoping someone like 
Matt or you would jump in to remind me.

And in fact it was a post by Matt a few weeks ago that made me 
understand the relationship between the two files.

-- 
Anthony Peacock       
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any
invention in human history with the possible exceptions of
handguns and tequila."

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