Helio Nunes wrote: > I have qmail toaster (Bill Supp's last version)with clamav and simscan and OS > is Suse 9.2. > Default locations are: /etc/mail/spamassassin for .spamassassion, init.pre, > local.cf > /usr/share/spamassassin for the additional (or I think are additional.. ) > > How can I say spamassassin is really using such .cf files. Actually I thought > that files from /usr/share/spamassassin should be copied > to /etc/mai/spamassassin.
You thought wrong. /etc/mail/spamassassin should contain SITE rules. It should NOT contain the default rules. It's a common mistake, but I have no clue where people get the idea they should copy the .cf files. It's completely wrong to do so. In general you should leave the default rule files there, and do not edit them unless you really know what you're doing. To "prove" SA is parsing both, try running spamassassin --lint -D. This will tell you what default rules dir and site rules dir SA is using. SA will automatically parse all .cf files in both of those two directories, plus init.pre out of the site rules dir. AFAIK the exact parse order SA uses is: <site_rules>/init.pre <default_rules>/*.cf (alpha order) <site_rules>/*.cf (alpha order) <user_prefs> For most settings, if there's a duplicate, the last one read over-writes earlier settings. This way, a .cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin can over-ride the score of a rule in /usr/share/spamassassin. Hence, you should never want to edit anything in /usr/share/spamassassin under normal circumstances.
