mailscanner.cf

[Alex Broens]

On 7/27/2007 4:32 PM, Greg Matthews wrote:
> 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?

no need to use links:

a plain /etc/mail/spamasassin/zzzzzmy_scores.cf for example, would be 
the last file parsed so any rule or score in there will never be 
overriden by other files unless you place one even later down the chain.

h2h

Alex