RE: [webmin-devel] Webmin 1.120 pre-release now available

[Larry G. <Li...@IS...>]

I fully agree with you.  But what are your thoughts about the .cf files in
the /etc/mail/spamassassin directory?

--Larry



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Cameron
> 
> I think that providing an interface for editing the 
> /usr/share/spamassassin files would not be too useful for 
> most people, as they are overwritten when upgrading, as you 
> wrote below. Also, they contain a huge number of rules that 
> would make the tables in the module's UI enormous ..
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:05, Larry Gilson wrote:
> > Hi Jamie,
> > 
> > I installed the pre-release and have not noticed any 
> > issues.  Thanks for the update, especially the SA support.  I was 
> > wondering if you would consider expanding the custom rule support 
> > to include files in addition to local.cf. SA will parse any .cf 
> > file in both the /usr/share/spamassassin and 
> > /etc/mail/spamassassin.  Most people avoid the 
> > /usr/share/spamassassin directory as any update will perform an 
> > 'rm -Rf' on that directory while leaving the 
> > /etc/mail/spamassassin alone.  There are many people who are 
> > incorporating custom rules and would rather keep the rules in a
> > file or files other than local.cf.
> > 
> > I don't know how difficult this would be.  You might be 
> > able to have an intermediate page that produces hyperlinks to all 
> > .cf files in a directory specified in the module config.  Would 
> > this be difficult to incorporate?  If so, could you keep it in 
> > mind for a possible future update?