> I think this is quite complicated, don't you think?
>
To be honest? No. I don't think it is complicated. I have memorized it by 
thinking: What would be the logical approach to set preferences?

And that helped me. To me it is logical to use the preference extension on 
storage engines where this is supported. Should preference extension not be 
enabled or available then it's logical to me to go with the default preferences 
and as a last exit use dspam.conf if everything fails.


> I guess one way to fix default preferences should be enough, as at the
> end,
>
I look it from that perspective that:

1) Normal DSPAM:
1.1) default.prefs is the place to add preferences
1.2) dspam.conf is the place to add preferences if default.prefs is not 
available

2) DSPAM with the preference extension:
2.1) Users preferences in the preference extension is the first place to add 
preferences
2.2) Should there be no user preferences, go and check default (uid 0)
2.3) Should default fail do the same as with normal DSPAM (1.1 then 1.2)


> after some time, you might forget how things work if you want to change
> something (it happened to me with DSPAM some time ago, and thought they
> had
> to bet set in dspam.conf...) I simplified this by removing default.prefs.
> 
You forgot how DSPAM works and then you removed a file without knowing the 
impact of that action? That kind of things can happen all the time. No matter 
how simple something is or how well it is documented.


> It should at least be better documented in README which lacks the kind of
> details you have given in your first answer.
> It should answer the following questions:
> - how default preferences are set
> - how user's preferences are set
> - in which priorities are the preferences applied
> 
Feel free to update the documentation and send it here to the ML. I am sure 
your work on the documentation as a native speaking English person will be much 
appreciated by the others from the DSPAM community.


// Steve
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