MailScanner.conf and spam.assassin.prefs.conf consistency

[Julian Field]

David Lee wrote:
> MailScanner.conf has a nice feature of defining "%org-name%" near the top,
> then using it further on, particularly for "X-%org-name%-MailScanner-..."
> headers.
>
> But spam.assassin.prefs.conf meanwhile requires some of these "X-..."
> headers to be hard-coded.  Would it be possible for these (at least as
> default) to somehow be automatic from %org-name%"?
>   
No, sorry, can't do it. MailScanner doesn't know how to parse the 
spam.assassin.prefs.conf file. The only important one is the envelope 
sender header, which is checked by "MailScanner --lint" which uses a 
very simple approach to reading the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file which 
is just good enough to read this single setting.

> I realise that SA needs to see the fully expanded form (thus different at
> every "org"), but could the sys.admin's version (default common across all
> "org"s) read "X-%org-name%-...", which MS/SA/something expand up for SA?
>
> Just a thought.
>   
The only thing I could do would be to parse the file and generate a new 
one, but this would need to be put in /etc/mail/spamassassin, and it's 
rather a cardinal sin to overwrite anything in /etc, stuff like that 
should be in /var. But I'm not sure how to tell SpamAssassin to add 
somewhere under /var to the list of directories it reads for admin-level 
settings.

All advice from others out there is gratefully received.

Jules

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