Re: [AMaViS-user] SA v3xx.pre files question

Yes it does. Thanks. It is hard picking the right list to send things too especially when they are all so intertwined. I am glad it loads all of them

thanks!

On Dec 20, 2007 5:13 PM, Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:02:16PM -0500, Doug Lochart wrote:
> > I am a complete noob on this stuff so please be patient.
> >
> > (amavis/sa) are being used as part of Zimbra
> >
> > It seems to me that the files named v310.pre, v312.pre etc contain
> > configuration that needs to be loaded before everything else starts am
> > I right? I customized the v310.pre file (following instructions) to
> > load the Razor2 and Pyzor plugins. I upgraded Zimbra and I see a
> > v312.pre file. I also see an init.pre file in which I think I loaded
> > the SPF plugin. So I upgrade Zimbra again and I see that the SA
> > configuration has a v320.pre file.
> >
> > Am I correct in thinking that these v3xx files correspond to a
> > particular version?
> > Am I to assume that only the v3xx.pre corresponding to the current
> > version is execute and the others are ignored?
> > What/When is init.pre executed and couls someone elaborate on how it
> > fits in with the v3xx files. Couldn't I simply put all my plugins in
> > init.pre?
>
> This is really a SpamAssassin issue, not an amavisd issue per se.
>
> The reason for all the different .pre files is to facilitate the SA
> people rolling out new plugins/features without trashing people's
> existing settings. SA will load all of the things in all of the .pre
> files up through the current version, in succession.
>
> Thus if you edit something in the v312.pre or init.pre, and SA 3.20
> comes out and requires new preloads, it will have a default v320.pre
> instead of trashing your init.pre or v312.pre, but it will still load
> your customizations. Does that make sense?
>
> -- Clifton
>
> --
> Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net
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