spam.assassin.prefs.conf contents

[Julian Field]

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On 29 Nov 2005, at 17:07, Matt Kettler wrote:

> Kevin Miller wrote:
>
>> So the question is, does it matter if SA is using flock and  
>> MailScanner
>> is set to posix?
>
> No.. This locking is only for SA to negotiate how to lock the bayes  
> and AWL
> databases amongst instances of itself.
>
> It has nothing to do with sharing files with your MTA, or any other  
> program.
>
> Note however that ALL instances of SA (including sa-learn) must use  
> the same
> method for it to work properly. If MailScanner's instance of SA is  
> using flock,
> and sa-learn is using nfssafe (the default) you can corrupt your  
> bayes database.
> This is why it's generally inadvisable to put this in user_prefs  
> files.

How do you make sure sa-learn is using the same setting as the main  
SA engine?
Or how do you tell sa-learn to use flock?

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