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

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

All .cf files, with respect to custom rules, are treated equally.  I can
send you a custom rule file if want an example.

Thanks Jamie!

--Larry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Cameron
> 
> Oops, I missed that comment. 
> 
> Being able to edit extra .cf files sounds like a good idea, 
> and probably not too hard to add support for. So are all .cf 
> files treated equally by spamassassin, or is local.cf special 
> in some way?
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> Larry Gilson <Li...@IS...> wrote ..
> > 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?