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

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Thanks for the information - that is pretty much how I expected
spamassasin to behave, and so I will have the module scan all .cf files
in /etc/mail/spamassassin by default in the upcoming 1.120 release. You
will need to adjust your module configuration after upgrading from 1.119
though, as in the current beta version the config path is set to
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
 
 - Jamie

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 00:45, Larry Gilson wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> --snip--
> 
> 
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