mailscanner.cf

[Alex Broens]

On 7/27/2007 8:57 PM, Julian Field wrote:
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> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> Kevin Miller wrote on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:02:06 -0800:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.)
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> Yes, you spell it
> rm -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
> :-)

and that will be replaced with what?

zzzMailScanner.cf?

Alex