ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi Julian,

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> 
> 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.

OK, I am back to being happy again :-)  
(I know easily pleased and it has been a very long afternoon at work)

I also think it would be good to rewrite the comments per my other 
email.


-- 
Anthony Peacock       
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and 
scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds, however, 
the timid join him...for then it costs nothing to be a 
patriot." -Mark Twain

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!