Re: files in /etc/mail/spamassassin (was: per-user local sa rules)

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 05:44 AM 6/15/2004, Martin Schröder wrote:
>So SA 2.63 reads all the files in /etc/mail/spamassassin, not
>only local.cf? According to
>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/sa/SA-rules-howto.txt
>rules should be added to local.cf

I suggested rules to be added to local.cf for simplicity of the guide. Most 
people writing their own rules only have a small handful (1-15), in which 
case a separate .cf file is not really needed. There's lots of small 
details which aren't important to most people that are glossed over in that 
guide to prevent it from becoming 200+ pages in length.

However, it IS true that SA will read all .cf files in 
/etc/mail/spamassassin, and when downloading whole cf files full of rules, 
I'd suggest just copying the file over and not bothering to append to local.cf.

(You also need to keep in mind that guide was originally written before 
SARE started, so at the time there weren't copious amounts of custom rules 
floating about.)