ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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I consider spamassassin and all the other tools prerequisites, so I tend 
to install it *before* mailscanner.

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On 22 Nov 2005, at 15:16, Rick Cooper wrote:

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>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>> Behalf Of Julian Field
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:58 AM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.
>>
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>> On 22 Nov 2005, at 12:00, Rick Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>> Julian, this code works :
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>> use Mail::SpamAssassin ;
>>> my $test = Mail::SpamAssassin->new();
>>> my $siterules = $test->{site_rules_filename};
>>> $siterules ||= $test->first_existing_path
>>> (@Mail::SpamAssassin::site_rules_path);
>>> print "Site Rules Path : $siterules\n";
>>
>> Presumably, as I need a directory, I don't want to do the
>> site_rules_filename bit. So I end up with just
>>
>> use Mail::SpamAssassin;
>> $a = new Mail::SpamAssassin;
>> print "site rules is \"";
>> print $a->first_existing_path (@Mail::SpamAssassin::site_rules_path);
>> print "\"\n";
>>
>> 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?

>> So people expecting to find spam.assassin.prefs.conf will still have
>> it, but the real file will be in mailscanner.cf in the
>> site_rules_path directory.
>>
>> When they upgrade by RPM, what should I do? Once they have the
>> mailscanner.cf in place, it's easy. It's the first upgrade to the new
>> structure that I have to handle carefully. Any ideas?
>>
>
> Wouldn't the above handle this also? At the very least the rpm install
> scripts could add the link. Or When MailScanner loads it could look  
> for a
> soft link at site_rules_path/mailscanner.cf and create it then.

It would be easy for the rpm install script to run a short Perl
script which output the pathname where the soft-link has to go. I
would rather not do it at run-time, it is very difficult to not do it
if you need to not do it for some reason.

The only problem left is that people normally install MailScanner
before installing SpamAssassin. Which package should it go into? I
suspect the answer is both. Should be easy enough.

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