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

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

Hi Jamie,

I hope the following is not too verbose.  The question of what SA parses
comes up quite a bit on the SA list so I thought I would at least document
the answer here at the risk of overstating the answer.

My test machine has the following files in /etc/mail/spamassassin:

  90_custom.cf
      local.cf
      local.cf.rpmsave
      local.cf.save

The only files that will be parsed for rules are:
  90_custom.cf
      local.cf

I delete the unused files on the production machine as they are not used.
So the answer is yes, only the .cf files are processed in
/etc/mail/spamassassin and all others are ignored.

The only files, at least that I know of, that SA will use for rules or
configuration are  *.cf (which includes local.cf) and user_prefs.  SA will
process *.cf only in /etc/mail/spamassassin and /usr/share/spamassassin.
*.cf configuration files are considered site-wide configurations.
user_prefs are user configuration files and processed only when SA is
invoked by the user or in a site-wide configuration when spamc is forced to
use per-user config files via 'spamc -u'.  The location of user_prefs is
$HOME/.spamassassin/ (which is the same location for auto-whitelist and
bayes files).  By default, SA will ignore rules in user_prefs.  The
administrator *must* set 'allow_user_rules 1' in local.cf to override this
default.  This practice is highly discouraged for security reasons as well
as it places a large processing load on the system with more users.  SA must
recompile all tests in user_prefs on a per-message basis.

Not having used Usermin I might be off base here but I would think that if a
site configuration were to support processing rules in user_prefs, the
support would be better placed in Usermin rather than Webmin.

--Larry



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Cameron
> 
> So only .cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin are processed? I 
> noticed a few other files in that directory that are not 
> normal SpamAssassin configs, and thus presumably ignored ..
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 16:24, Larry Gilson wrote:
> > 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


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