ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Matt Kettler]

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Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> 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

That's a correct analysis. If you soft-link the file, under the existing MS
code, you'll end up double-parsing the file.

For most options this is irrelevant, but for a few options this could cause
subtle misbehaviors. (ie: report template commands, trusted_networks, and other
commands that concatenate instead of clobber.)

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