spam rules confused

[Vu Pham]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 06:21 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 6/27/07, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to add some addresses into the whitelist of mailscanner and
> > spamassassin.
> >
> > For MailScanner, it uses /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
> > with the format like "FromOrTo: *@linux-sxs.org yes"
> >
> > But when I look into the file /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf
> > ( whick links to /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf ) there is
> > this following comment :
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > # White list addresses should be added in
> >
> >         /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > >From what I understand, the same whitelist file of Mailscanner is read
> > by spamassassin but the format of SA  rules is different from
> > MailScanner ones.
> >
> > So how can spamassassin understand the file spam.whitelist.rules ?
> 
> It can't.  But why should it have to?  You told mailscanner that
> address was OK, so mailscanner won't run spamassassin.

That's what I thought and also what I am confused.

Look at the above two lines of the spam.assassin.prefs.conf, the
descriptive text is commented out while the other line does not have it.
It makes me think the file /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules
will be read by the spam.assassin.prefs.conf.


Vu