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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Tom Vivian <to...@thevivians.net> on 2004/04/06 15:27:19 UTC

Newbie question

Am I correct in thinking that I should copy the .cf files from
/usr/share/spamassassin/ to /etc/mail/spamassassin/ or is it better to copy
the code from the files in /usr/share/spamassassin/ to
/usr/share/spamassassin/local.cf

Thanks.

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Re: Newbie question

Posted by Matthias Fuhrmann <Ma...@stud.uni-hannover.de>.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Tom Vivian wrote:

> Am I correct in thinking that I should copy the .cf files from
> /usr/share/spamassassin/ to /etc/mail/spamassassin/ or is it better to copy
> the code from the files in /usr/share/spamassassin/ to
> /usr/share/spamassassin/local.cf

/etc/mail/spamassassin/ is your permanent systemwide config directory.
/usr/share/spamassassin/ only holds those config files, which came with
the current version of spamassassin you have installed on your system.
when adding new rules, place them into: /etc/mail/spamassassin/
and leave all files in /usr/share/spamassassin/ untouched.
local.cf should stay in /etc/mail/spamassassin/.

regards,
Matthias