spam.assassin.prefs.conf real file location

[Rick Cooper]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: spam.assassin.prefs.conf real file location
>
>
> If we accept that we are having 1 file and a link to it, which should be
> the real file?
> The <mailscanner_etc>/spam.assassin.prefs.conf will not be read directly
> by MailScanner, the <sa_site_path>/mailscanner.cf will be read by
> SpamAssassin as part of its normal initialisation.
>
> <mailscanner_etc>/spam.assassin.prefs.conf is the real file?
> or
> <sa_site_path>/mailscanner.cf is the real file?
>
> I prefer the first one as it makes the installation a lot easier to do
> automatically.
>

I vote for the first. Makes sense in a multitude of ways and keeps
MailScanner's files where they should be for upgrades and such. Of course
there would have to be a note some where that the link should be removed is
MailScanner is removed manually

Rick


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