Re: [AMaViS-user] newbie questions

John,


(apart from what Gary V already answered)

> Does it just add the normal spam assassin headers?

Most of it's lookalikes, yes. Remember that spam header fields are only
added for inbound mail, i.e. for recipients matching @local_domains_maps.

> 3) where do I define various pieces of the spam assassin environment?
> (like the location of the rules files, etc.) Mine are in a non-standard
> place.

The SA is initialized with the following call:

sub init() {
do_log(1, "SpamControl: initializing Mail::SpamAssassin");
my($saved_umask) = umask;
$spamassassin_obj = Mail::SpamAssassin->new({
debug => $sa_debug,
save_pattern_hits => $sa_debug,
dont_copy_prefs => 1,
local_tests_only => $sa_local_tests_only,
home_dir_for_helpers => $helpers_home,
stop_at_threshold => 0,
# DEF_RULES_DIR => '/usr/local/share/spamassassin',
# LOCAL_RULES_DIR => '/etc/mail/spamassassin',
#see man Mail::SpamAssassin for other options
});

in package Amavis::SpamControl, file amavisd.

If SA will not find its files in you environment, you will
need to either provide soft links, or modify the call,
e.g. by providing additional arguments, like the two
commented-out example lines. There is currently no
configurable parameter in amavisd.conf for that purpose.

> 4) it would be nice to see something that even remotely resembled a man
> page, especially for amavis.conf

I know. So far you will have to do with amavisd.conf*,
README.* files (especially the README.lookups),
and the amavisd-new-docs.html.

> 5) it would also be nice to see things like those virus definitions
> moved to a library type file, with the conf file being somewhat more
> human readable. Mailscanner's conf-file format seems pretty ideal to
> me.

Multiple config files are supported (place multiple -c options
in the 'amavisd start' line), or use the example at the end of
amavisd.conf-sample to 'include' all sub-config files from a
provided directory. The virus scanner definitions and other
settings may be placed into separate files if desired.

Mark


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