"include path-to-conf-files" in 4.78.9

[Jules Field]

Correction. Teensy bug removed, which you would hopefully not hit 
anyway, but might if your main MailScanner.conf file is very old.

Try 4.78.12.

On 26/08/2009 22:19, Jules Field wrote:
> Should be all fixed now. Sorry for the lousy testing on my part before 
> I released 10.
> 11 correctly picks up %org-name% and "Run As User" when set in an 
> included file, no problems. So all the others should work correctly 
> now too.
>
> Please give 11 a try.
>
> As for the website, it has definitely been updated, so I suspect your 
> browser's caching it.
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
> On 26/08/2009 21:49, Mike Wallace wrote:
>> I found a couple of things
>>
>> 1) I like how MailScanner --lint shows what configuration files were 
>> read and my configuration was read last.
>> 2) Found a couple of parameters that are still not being imported 
>> from my config:
>>
>>     %org-name% =
>>     Run As User =
>>     Run As Group =
>>
>> The org-name shows up when running --lint "ERROR: The 
>> "envelope_sender_header" in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf is not 
>> correct, it should match X-yoursite-MailScanner-From". In 78.9 the 
>> message was "ERROR: The "envelope_sender_header" in your 
>> spam.assassin.prefs.conf is not correct, it should match 
>> X-mlrw_com-MailScanner-From".
>>
>> As for the Run As, when I do a ps I see that MailScanner is running 
>> as root and not postfix.
>>
>> 3) One thing to help with debugging would be if you had a command 
>> like postconf to display what configuration parameters are being 
>> used. Or could you guide me on how to dump the configuration.
>> 4) The link on the MailScanner website still shows 4.78.9 as the 
>> current beta release.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Jules Field wrote:
>>
>>> Can you do me a big favour and give it a good try and report back if 
>>> anything doesn't work?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jules.
>>>
>>> On 26/08/2009 16:22, Mike Wallace wrote:
>>>> Jules,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I'm glad you liked my suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't expect any updates until next week when you got back to 
>>>> the UK.
>>>>
>>>> You are a gentleman and a scholar.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Jules Field wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25/08/2009 18:36, Mike Wallace wrote:
>>>>>> Jules,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope you are enjoying or enjoyed (based on when you read this) 
>>>>>> your well deserved vacation in the States.
>>>>> "Enjoying" thanks :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been playing with "include path-to-conf-files" in 4.78.9 
>>>>>> and found a couple of limitations that I want to verify.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that the following parameters are ignored when in the 
>>>>>> include file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> %org-name% =
>>>>>> %org-long-name% =
>>>>>> %web-site% =
>>>>>> Run As User =
>>>>>> Run As Group =
>>>>>> MTA =
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this by design or a "feature"? Are their other parameters that 
>>>>>> can't be in the include file?
>>>>> Fixed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reason I ask is that I am trying to put all of my site 
>>>>>> specific configuration changes in the include file so that the 
>>>>>> only thing I have to do to MailScanner.conf is add "include 
>>>>>> /etc/MailScanner/config/mysite.conf".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be awesome if you had "include 
>>>>>> /etc/MailScanner/config/*.conf" in MailScanner.conf.  Then if the 
>>>>>> directory or and/or any files in that directory did not exist, 
>>>>>> they would be ignored. That way those who don't want to use it 
>>>>>> can edit the configuration file like they always have.
>>>>> Done. I've called it "/conf.d/" instead of your "/config/" as that 
>>>>> is more standard these days.
>>>>> There should be a little README file in that directory so it has 
>>>>> something short to parse so the include line at the very end of 
>>>>> MailScanner.conf won't whine that it couldn't find any files 
>>>>> matching conf.d/*.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have just released 4.78.10 for your pleasure :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Jules
>>>>>
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>
> Jules
>

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