Re: [cpx] CPX and Imanager spam control

[Rus Berrett <rberrett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:05:19PM -0700, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [cpx] CPX and Imanager spam control
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:06:30PM -0500, Norman R. Prevett wrote:
> > 
> > Question: Can they use Imanager to manage their Spam settings without 
> > causing problems with CPX or other users who use CPX for web mail?
> 
> Rus will have a better grasp of this, but I believe the two use
> different (and possibly incompatible) heuristics to scan for spam. I'm
> not sure what the worst-case scenario would be: scanning twice or not
> scanning at all.

iManager enables/disables spamassassin directly by writing/removing a
spamassassin recipe inside the dot-procmailrc file.  I did it this way
because the vinstall for spamassassin (at the time) was writing
directly to a user's dot-procamilrc file.  The vinstall may still do
this... not sure.

CPX enables/disables spamassassin from within a CPX block in the 
dot-procmailrc file by enabling/disabling an external INCLUDERC.  In
that INCLUDERC file you'll find the same recipe (or a very similar one)
to that which iManager (or the vinstall) writes to your dot-procmailrc
file.

So, as Scott suggests, the very worst thing that could happen is that
you scan incoming messages twice.  No big deal.


> 
> If you really want to use both, I'd disable the cpx one and let
> imanager do its thing. I believe someone is working on a nice
> interface for CPX, but I don't have a time frame.
> 
> Scott

I don't have a comment on any time frame either.  Scott has more of the
pulse of CPX project development than I do.  But at the very least an
interface to the bayesian classifier in SA (to both learn and unlearn
messages) would be nice.  Neither iManager nor CPX have such an
interface at the present time.

hth.

--rus.


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Rus Berrett                                                    NTT/Verio
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