ALL_TRUSTED problems

[Richard Edge]

Sorry. A typo on my part. It is actually in /etc/mail/spamasassin. 

I guess I was using the -p which was mentioned in some docs from an
earlier version of MailScanner and SA that I was using. As I mentioned
in another email, 'spamassassin -D --lint' gives me the same output as
previously reported here.

Richard Edge
Senior Systems Administrator | Technology Services
Trinity Western University | t: 604.513.2089
f: 604.513.2038 | e: edge <at> twu.ca| www.twu.ca/technology 


-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Matt
Kettler
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:59 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: ALL_TRUSTED problems

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 01/02/06, Richard Edge <Edge at twu.ca> wrote:
>> If I change the line:
>>
>> Score ALL_TRUSTED 0
>>
>> To:
>>
>> core ALL_TRUSTED
>>
>> Then the output from "spamassassin -p /etc/mail/mailscanner.cf
--lint"
>> gives me a:
>>
>> [22778] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: core 
>> ALL_TRUSTED 0 [22778] warn: lint: 1 issues detected, please rerun 
>> with debug enabled for more information
>>
> <me grasping at straws:-)>
> Um, does it carp if you don't specify "-p /etc/mail/mailscanner.cf "
> too? You shouldn't need use it as a preference file</me grapsing at 
> straws:-)> anymore, since it should be part of the site rules... A 
> plain "spamassassin --lint" should suffice.
> </me grasping at straws:-)>

Erm, what on earth is mailscanner.cf doing in /etc/mail/??

it belongs in /etc/mail/spamassassin or /etc/spamassassin, or some other
directory containing the word "spamassassin" depending on how your SA is
configured.

Realistically you should *NEVER*, EVER under any condition use -p to
point to any site-level file. It should only point to a user level file.

Mailscanner.cf is NOT a user level file.

The whole reason mailscanner.cf was created was to ensure it was NOT
used as a user prefs file. mailscanner.cf contains options that are ONLY
valid at the site-wide level. Do NOT pass this -p. It belongs in the SA
site-config directory so SA always parses it, and to make sure that SA
correctly parses it.

If it's not in the site config directory, SA won't parse it when
mailscanner runs.

New versions of Mailscanner do NOT pass mailscanner.cf as a user prefs
file, thus by adding -p you are changing the behavior of spamassassin to
be different than what Mailscanner does with it.

I know this is contrary to how old versions of MS worked. In old
versions, spam.assassin.prefs.conf was passed as a user_prefs
replacement. However, This file kept pushing options in which are only
valid at the site level. It also pushed options such as bayes_path which
need to be passed to all instances of sa on the system, such as
sa-learn.

After some prodding, Julian finally created MailScanner.cf, a file to be
placed alongside local.cf and other site-wide config files. This way any
call to SA automatically parses this file.







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