Fwd: Re[4]: rulesdujour, lint, and whitelist_spf

[Michael Monnerie <m....@zmi.at>]

Hi @all,

is it possible to implement some kind of
echo "Error in configuration"
that can be put in config files? I think it would be a good feature to 
inform users of misconfigs.

Here's part of the dialog I had with Rob Menschel and Theo van Dinter:

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MM> Hello, I disabled SPF support and got errors:

MM> [31721] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping:
MM>  whitelist_from_spf    calmt@calmt.pmail.biz
MM> (and many more such lines)

MM> Theo gave a good hint, and as you are listed as a maintainer, I'd 
ask
MM> you to please do that, thx.

MM> On Freitag, 24. März 2006 18:09 Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>> FWIW, rules that require plugins should be wrapped in
>> "ifplugin/endif" containers.  Especially if those rules are being
>> distributed out to other people -- you never know who has what
>> plugins enabled.


>> ----------  Forwarded message from Robert Menschel:  ---------- 

Subject: Re[4]: rulesdujour, lint, and whitelist_spf
Date: Dienstag, 28. März 2006 06:01
From: Robert Menschel <Ro...@menschel.net>
To: Michael Monnerie <m....@zmi.at>

Hello Michael,

Sunday, March 26, 2006, 11:10:28 PM, you wrote:

MM> On Montag, 27. März 2006 02:53 Robert Menschel wrote:
>> If I do as you suggest, then there'll be no notification that you've
>> completely lost all SARE whitelist functionality; you'll only turn
>> it off.  This way, you (should) know that you have a problem, and
>> you can switch back to the non-SPF file, and keep the benefits of
>> the whitelist.

MM> OK, is there some warning possible? I use SPF, just wanted to turn
 it MM> off for testing. But I didn't do --lint afterwards, and next
 day I was MM> surprised about the problems, as I wasn't thinking that
 turning SPF off MM> causes such problems. Others might have the same.
 So if possible MM> something like
MM> if module SPF
MM>    load rules
MM> else
MM>    echo warning: SPF turned off, not using rules
MM> fi
MM> could do a very nice job of informing about the problem.

That could be useful, but there is no "echo" function that I'm aware
of within SA.  The best we could do is

> if module SPF
>   whitelist rules
> else
>   something that causes an error
> fi

If you want something better than that, it's back to the development
team to develop a useful else.

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