Re: No alternative to --virtual-config in spamd 3.0.2 ??

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Matt Kettler writes:
> Reply to self:
> 
> I mis-read your message. Sorry Simon.
> 
> It looks like until someone rewrites it, there's going to be no true 
> emulation of --virtual-config. As the release notes said, it was a 
> licensing issue.
> 
> I take that to mean it was originally written by someone not willing to 
> allow their code to be converted to the Apache license.

Yep, that was the case.

- --j.

> At 12:37 AM 1/11/2005, Matt Kettler wrote:
> >At 04:32 PM 1/9/2005, Simon Byrnand wrote:
> >>As far as I can see this is impossible to emulate with 
> >>--virtual-config-dir, as it only specifies the DIRECTORY and expects a 
> >>file user_prefs, with no way to specify an alternative filename. This 
> >>would mean I'd have to have something like:
> >>
> >>/var/spool/userprefs/username/user_prefs
> >
> >Read the spamd man page more closely.
> >
> >http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/spamd.html
> >
> >You can specify variables in the path. It's quite flexible.
> >
> >You probably want:
> >--virtual-config-dir=/var/spool/userprefs/%l/
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