On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:05:32 -0700 Terry Barnum <te...@dop.com> wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Stevan Bajić wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:14:32 -0700 > > Terry Barnum <te...@dop.com> wrote: > >> I did a 'sudo dspam_admin list preference default' and it returns just > >> signatureLocation=headers. > >> > >> Do I need to set the other preferences this way (like trainingMode TEFT, > >> spamAction tag, etc.) or are they picked up from the dspam.conf file? > >> > > You have to understand the way how the preferences are handled in DSPAM. I > > could go on and write now a long text how it is handled but everything is > > written in the DSPAM documentation. > > Sorry Stevan. I looked at the man pages, the readme and in the /doc > directory. I just found http://dspam.expass.de/wiki/Main_Page. Is this where > I should look for documentation? > That is the wrong place to look for informations. Firstly the source archive has the most documentation. The second place is the DSPAM wiki. dspam.sf.net is the place to start looking for information. > > Anyway... yes. If you want to have preferences active on a global scale > > then do it with the preference extension. It's the easiest way IMHO. Use > > "default" as username if you want the preference to be active for all > > users. Off course you can overwrite individual entries on a per user basis > > as well. > > After looking at the Preference Attributes documentation I'm still not sure > why the signatureLocation needed to be changed via dspam_admin. Shouldn't a > change in dspam.conf setting signatureLocation=headers be enough if there > weren't any default preferences set to override it? > Yes. That information is right. dspam.conf is the right place to change the preferences. > The docs say the order is: > > 1. Compiled-in defaults > 2. Any values set using Preference directives in the agent config file > dspam.conf. > 3. Any default preferences. These are normal preferences stored with special > UID 0 in the preferences table. The attributes can be set directly in the > table or changed usingdspam_admin with default as the user name. > 4. Any values from the user preferences table for the current user. Values > for untrusted users are only used if the respective attribute is listed using > an AllowOverride directive in the agent config file. > That is right too. I think you changed stuff in dspam.conf but it is not picking it up. Could it be that you have changed the wrong dspam.conf? Could you post the output of "dspam --version"? (I think I asked that already? And you have provided that info. Right?). Anyway... please post it again and post the location of dspam.conf that you edit. > -Terry > -- Kind Regards from Switzerland, Stevan Bajić ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspam-user mailing list Dspam-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
