Re: [AMaViS-user] does amavisd-new load SA plugins based on *.pre?files?

[Sahil T. <sa...@ta...>]

* Mark Martinec <Mar...@ij...> [2007-12-02 02:32:46 +0100]:

> > Based on the FAQ and actual SA headers, I understand that local.cf is
> > interpreted by SA running through amavisd (even though some scores/rules
> > may be ignored).  But I could not find any information on the
> > handling/loading of modules.  What is the right way to disable an SA module
> > with an amavisd setup? Should I be editing the bin?
> 
> The plugin usage is disabled, despite being loaded.
> 
> Either deinstall these modules and they will not get loaded,
> or edit the above list of modules to be pre-loaded, or just
> not worry about a small wastage of memory which never gets used.

Agreed; memory was not my concern.

> 
> The problem is that there is no way for amavisd to know
> ahead of time which modules SpamAssassin will need, and some
> of these modules are not preloaded by SpamAssassin initialization,
> so they get loaded later with every child process creation,
> or when chrooted, such functionality just fails.
> 
> The built-in list of modules to be preloaded consists of modules
> which SpamAssassin will likely need but fail to preload. Currently
> it is just a best guess, in absence of a better way.

Thanks for the explanation.

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Sahil Tandon <sa...@ta...>