--On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 6:49 PM +0100 Mark Martinec 
<mark.martinec+ama...@ijs.si> wrote:

> Quanah,
>
>> <mark.martinec+ama...@ijs.si> wrote:
>> > Now in the 2.7.0, in addition to the above, it became possible to
>> > call SpamAssassin more than once per message. See description
>> > of settings @sa_userconf_maps and @sa_username_maps
>> > in the recent RELEASE_NOTES. Recipients of a message may
>> > specify individual SA user configuration files. If this happens,
>> > SpamAssassin is called once for each cluster of same-config-file
>> > and same-username (i.e. username for Bayes checks).
>> > This does not come cheap, you pay the price of saving current
>> > SpamAssassin settings and loading a new set, and calling it
>> > for each group -  so use this sparingly, only if really necessary.
>> > Unlike the per-recipient @*_maps described above, which
>> > cost almost nothing (apart from substantial programming effort).
>>
>> This sounds to be something very different than I ever desired.  What we
>> modified amavis for was adding an additional SA ".cf" file that applied
>> to all users, i.e., an overall administrative policy if you will.  This
>> sounds more like something that allows users to adjust their
>> configurations, which is quite different, and it sounds like it requires
>> both @sa_username_maps and @sa_userconf_maps to be set for it to work.
>> I just need to be able to say to use the additional .cf file for all
>> mail, regardless of user.  Is there a way to do that, or do I need to
>> continue to patch amavisd for that functionality?
>
> I believe that just having a global @sa_userconf_maps seting with a
> fixed string (a 'constant'-type lookup table) achieves what you need:
>
>   @sa_userconf_maps = ( '/etc/my_user_prefs.cf' );
>
> If you do not change this setting by a policy bank and do not
> specify per-user lookup tables, there is no additional performance
> hit apart from the loading of the extra config file at the child
> process startup. I don't think this is unlike your suggestion,
> but I may be wrong. Please try it.

Great, I'll give this a shot, thanks!

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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