SQL user preferences and Mimedefang

[Arie Kachler <ak...@telcom.net>]

Hello,
Can SQL user preferences be accomplished with a milter like Mimedefang? I don't
see the option in the SA documentation. The only way, apparently, to use SQL
user prefs is with spamd, which is not used with Mimedefang or other milters.
Is there a way around this?
Any help will be greately appreciated.

Arie Kachler

Re: SQL user preferences and Mimedefang

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

At 05:29 PM 2/22/2005, Arie Kachler wrote:
>Can SQL user preferences be accomplished with a milter like Mimedefang? I 
>don't
>see the option in the SA documentation. The only way, apparently, to use SQL
>user prefs is with spamd, which is not used with Mimedefang or other milters.
>Is there a way around this?

Most milter's use spamd, so this isn't an issue for "other milters".. it's 
mostly a mimedefang, mailscanner, and other perl based tool issue.

Mimedefang, or any other  tool that uses SA direct perl API, can 
theoretically make use of SQL, but it requires code changes .

The way the API is laid out, the choice about which config source to use is 
left up to the caller of the API. If Mimedefang were to call 
load_scoreonly_sql() on the Mail::SpamAssassin object, then the SQL 
configuration would be used. Otherwise, it's not going to be used.

The fundamental crux is there are no config options that actually enable 
SQL. That's done with command-line parameters to spamd, which causes spamd 
to call the above load function. The config options only specify what to do 
with SQL once it's turned on.