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[Julian Field]

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Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Kevin Miller wrote on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:02:06 -0800:
>
>   
>> If it's a parsing problem,
>> then put any customizations in local.cf (or make a Custom.cf if case
>> matters) both of which should kick off before MailScanner.cf.
>>     
>
> That's exactly the problem if it concerns scores. If you set a score in 
> local.cf that is set in MailScanner.cf the latter overrides the former. 
> You may not want that.
>
> Thinking this over I don't quite understand, though, why MailScanner.conf 
> needs to comes last (or almost last). The shipping MailScanner.conf should 
> contain only scores that affect the *shipping* SA rules and these are not 
> in this directory! (except for local.cf which is definitely before M)
>
> It should not contain scores for any third-party rules as not anybody has 
> them.
>
> And the same is true for your own rules. If anybody puts his own rules in 
> there he just fell in that trap. As I said: put your own rules/scores in 
> your own file, obviously higher than M and all is well. There is 
> absolutely no need to rename MailScanner.cf. People putting there own 
> scores there simply do it wrong.
>
> (btw: is there already an install option to avoid creation of the symlink 
> at all? If not I would like to see that.)
>   
Yes, you spell it
rm -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
:-)

Jules

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