severity 644451 wishlist
tag 644451 + upstream patch
retitle 644451 Support spamassassin's --virtual-config-dir
thanks

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 12:24:03AM -0700, David Caldwell wrote:
> On 10/5/11 10:58 PM, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 07:27:47PM -0700, David Caldwell wrote:
> >>   I noticed after upgrading my sa-learn-cyrus that I was getting this 
> >> error:
> >> 2011-10-05 19:00:03 sa-learn-cyrus[4061] warn: 'bayes_path' not found in 
> >> SA's config '/etc/spamassassin/local.cf'. Assuming '~/.spamassassin/bayes'
> >>
> >>   This appears to be caused by the removal of the "virtual-users.patch" 
> >> that
> >> existed in the 0.3.2 debian package.
> > 
> > I'm not aware of such a patch. Given that I somehow messed up even
> > debian/changelog, I might be pretty blind these days, but I really don't
> > get what you're talking about...
> 
> Oh crap, turns out it *wasn't* in the old debian package, I wrote it!
> (it was a year ago, forgive my memory). For some reason I didn't send it
> to anyone, so I'll take the opportunity to do so now. Sorry about that!
> The bug should have been "wishlist" and have a different title.
> 
> This patch adds a new option to the sa-learn-cyrus config file that is
> the equivalent of spamassassin spamd's "--virtual-config-dir" command
> line option. Usually sa-learn-cyrus gets the bayes_path out of
> spamassassin's config file but when you use the --virtual-config-dir
> option there ends up being nothing about bayes_path in the spamassassin
> config file at all.
> 
> The --virtual-config-dir option lets you do some simple substitutions
> for virtual users which is necessary in my setup because not all my
> cyrus mail users are real unix users with home directories. Check the
> spamd man page or
> https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/spamd.html for more
> info.
> 
> Feeling kind of dumb,

Don't. We've all done stuff like this. :)

I'll inform upstream about this. Let's see what he says...

Hauke

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