On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:01:05PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: > 1. Deprecated directives. If a configuration includes the > deprecated "rewrite_subject" directive, will spamd barf? Or > ignore it? Or something else? What about spamassassin?
Heya Ben.. long time no speak :> I have a bunch of deprecated directives in my config, and it hasn't caused any problems for me yet. It's not barfing - just shows up as ignored if you run in debug mode. debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: rewrite_subject 0 debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: report_header 1 debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: use_terse_report 1 debug: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: defang_mime 0 > 3. Deprecated command-line options. Will the options deprecated > after 2.6 be ignored, or will they cause failures? What about > options previously deprecated, like '-S'? Looks like (from a quick test) an error is sent to stderr. drama% spamassassin -S The -S option has been deprecated and is no longer supported, ignoring.
