mailscanner.cf

[Greg Matthews]

I've just found a problem with the symbolic link 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf

The problem is that the .cf files are parsed in alphabetical order so if 
you set a score in mailscanner.cf it may get reset by subsequent .cf 
files. This is not merely academic, I stumbled on this whilst trying to 
adjust the scores in pdfinfo.cf used by a lot of people recently to help 
with the pdf attachment spam. The "correct" way to do this is to use a 
line like:

score GMD_PDF_ENCRYPTED 1.0

in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf which is linked to by 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf

The workaround was to rename the symbolic link zz-mailscanner.cf but 
this will not survive an upgrade (presumably).

Any chance this link could be renamed permanently? Or suggest a 
different solution?

GREG
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford

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