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Simon Jones simonmjones at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 12:00:56 IST 2008


2008/7/31 Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/31 Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:
>> on 7-30-2008 1:50 PM Glenn Steen spake the following:
>>>
>>> 2008/7/30  <mailsysteam at googlemail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Simon Jones <simonmjones at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks Scott,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll try and learn rulesets :)  not a lot of info there though is there!
>>>>>
>>>> This list used to be friendly at some point. Time changes I guess If some
>>>> people can e bothered helping others, maybe they should refrain from
>>>> reply
>>>> at all...
>>>>
>>>> sorry I can't help you with te rulesets info... :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>
>>> The list is as friendly as we make it Steve.... Always was that way;-).
>>> Scott is one of the chaps that makes this a friendly place. One lapse
>>> on an issue (rulesets), that has been beat to death.... can be
>>> forgiven. Makes things friendlier still. Now, the info on rulesets in
>>> MailScanner are:
>>> - in the rules subdirectory (EXAMPLES file, for example:-) ... either
>>> /etc/MailScanner/rules or /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules (I think, I'm a
>>> RPM type o' guy:)
>>> - in the book
>>> - in the ML archives (one need but search!:-)
>>> - in the wiki, as pointed out by Scott in his followup.
>>> Rulesets are central to the flexibility of MailScanner, so are a very
>>> good thing to learn. In the stock distribution, the spam whitelist is
>>> implemented through a ruleset... etc etc etc:-):-)
>>>
>>> BTW, being fresh back from renovating/replacing my kitchen/having a
>>> "vacation", I'm in a very optimistic mood.... The glass is half
>>> full!!!:-D
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>
>> Glad to see you back with a smile! You should be really smiling when the
>> glass is completely empty (maybe the second emptying)!  ;-P
> That was the second one.... First was a normal G&T:-):-)
>
>>
>> The link I gave had a beautiful example of just what the poster asked for.
>> It is just much nicer to show a reference to someone else's work instead of
>> adding bits to another message about the same thing over again. I guess that
>> the negative complaint was because someone just fired from the hip instead
>> of looking at all the wonderful examples in that link.
>>
>> "Give a man a fish, and he eats once. Teach a man to fish and he can feed
>> himself"  (paraphrased, because it just doesn't sound exactly right).
>>
> Yep.
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn

Thanks to all for sharing their knowledge, didn't mean to rattle
anyone - just sometimes you have to fix something up but can't figure
out where to start.  Promise I'll learn all about rulesets :)  Glen, u
want to come fix me a nice new kitchen on your next vacation?!

Simon


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