[Mimedefang] Incorrect required_hits setting

[Jim McCullars]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Matthew Ward wrote:

> ok.  (probably dumb) question:  where in the documentation can i find
> a discussion of Things That Belong in sa-mimedefang.cf - as opposed to
> Things That Belong in local.cf ?

   If you look at the man page for mimedefang-filter about 3/4 of the way
towards the bottom, you will see a list of files that MIMEDefang looks for
when a call to SpamAssassin is made.  Note that it uses the first file in
the list that it finds.  On *my* system, the file list looks like this:

  /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/sa-mimedefang.cf
  /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf
  /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin/local.cf
  /usr/local/etc/mimedefang/spamassassin.cf

Note that you need to look at the man page for your installation, because
when you build MD, you can tell the configure routine to put things in
different locations than the default.

   On my system, I have the SA rules in
/usr/local/etc/mimedefang/sa-mimedefang.cf so once MD finds that file it
doesn't look at any of the others.

   The thing you have to be careful of, is if you run SA from the command
line, you probably should use the -p option to make it load the same
preferences (rules) file that MD uses or you may get results you didn't
expect.

   HTH...

Jim McCullars
University of Alabama in Huntsville