Re: Include directives in user_prefs was Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:37:01AM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > >> Can I somehow specify an include directive in my user_prefs file, such >> as "include my_friends.cf"? >> > > Did you look at "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" ? :) > > To be a bit more specific,

Re: Include directives in user_prefs was Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-21 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:37:01AM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > Can I somehow specify an include directive in my user_prefs file, such > as "include my_friends.cf"? Did you look at "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" ? :) -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the

Include directives in user_prefs was Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-21 Thread Igor Chudov
Can I somehow specify an include directive in my user_prefs file, such as "include my_friends.cf"? i

Re: Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:10:18PM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > >> So, if whitelist_from is scalable to a few thousand addresses, I would >> like to use it. >> > > It probably won't scale that far since it's super inefficient to have a flat > file config w/ that man

Re: Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:10:18PM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > So, if whitelist_from is scalable to a few thousand addresses, I would > like to use it. It probably won't scale that far since it's super inefficient to have a flat file config w/ that many entries. You'd want to have some kind of p

Re: Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Igor Chudov wrote: > I have to respectfully disagree with those who say that whitelisting > my friends is a bad idea. > I never said that whitelisting your friends is a bad idea. I said whitelisting based on email address ALONE is a bad idea in general. It's a lot better to use tools that are

Whitelist of my friends -- followup

2007-07-20 Thread Igor Chudov
I have to respectfully disagree with those who say that whitelisting my friends is a bad idea. I do realize that spammers use everyone's addresses -- as they are using mine -- as fake return addresses, just as often as they would use any other address. But the chances of them accidentally using