ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Julian Field]

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On 22 Nov 2005, at 16:27, Matt Kettler wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, should have said. I will stop using the  
spam.assassin.prefs.conf internally in MailScanner. Obviously we  
don't want to parse the same file twice.

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