Re: [qmailadmin-devel] Spamassassin configuration screen

[Tom C. <to...@to...>]

On Feb 16, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Rick Widmer wrote:
>> It would be quite useful to let uses set the spamassassin settings
>> themselves like they do for setting vacation messages and such.
>> The question I have is:  If I get a guy to add the needed code is 
>> there a
>> chance it will get integrated into the official qmailadmin?
>
> I like the idea of adding this feature... but the timing is not good. 
> We have branched QmailAdmin.  The 1.2 branch is considered stable and 
> I don't know how much Tom (the stable maintainer) wants to add to it.
>
> The 1.3 branch is in the middle of a major code cleanup.  I don't 
> expect it to be stable for a month or two.  I would love to have your 
> modifications in 1.3, but until I am done ripping and tearing there 
> isn't much use in someone else adding anything.  I'm confident once I 
> get done it will be easier to customize.

I think this feature is a key component to the future of 
vpopmail/qmailadmin.  If the interface can manage the prefs in MySQL, 
then spamd can use them when vdelivermail passes the email address to 
it (Ken Jones' patch which will go into the vpopmail 5.5 development 
series soon).

Since it will probably reside in its own file, someone could probably 
start work on it to interface with Rick's new codebase.  Since the code 
would only rely on QmailAdmin for language string lookups and possibly 
authentication, there shouldn't be much to change if Rick modifies the 
1.3.0 codebase.

I don't see any reason to add major features to 1.2 at this time -- it 
just means a lot more work to port the changes into 1.3.

Also note that this topic has come up before, and there are interfaces 
out there for modifying SpamAssassin prefs.  It would be worthwhile to 
research what's currently available, and if any of them are C-based, to 
use it as a starting point.

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