mailscanner.conf symlink

[Jules Field]

On 16/02/2010 17:27, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 11:59 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>    
>> There's some confusion ;-) The rpm creates a symlink
>> ln -s /etc/MailScanner/spamassassin.prefs.conf
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.conf
>>
>> (Just see I omitted the "spamassassin" accidentally, but I guess, Jules
>> understood what I meant.)
>>      
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I understand now.
>
>
>    
>> This is not good if you have already a working spamassassin config in
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin. Thus I first removed it and then touched a file
>> there. Still the rpm overwrites that with a symlink. So, one has to
>> correct this with each installation.
>>      
>
> Or, I think you could just edit /etc/MailScanner/spamassassin.prefs.conf
> to contain nothing or only things you want. I'm not certain this works,
> but mine is edited and the rpm doesn't overwrite it.
>    
That is quite true, that would work just fine.

Jules

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