comments in .spamassassin/user_prefs?

[jigster]

Can we add comments to /home/USERNAME/.spamassassin/user_prefs? If so, in what format (# or // etc.)?

I've written a roundcube plugin to whitelist email addresses in webmail using DirectAdmin's API, and my idea is to put a timestamp as a comment with the 'whitelist_from' entry in /home/USERNAME/.spamassassin/user_prefs so that I can run a cron once a week/month to remove old entries (e.g. older than a year), to keep the whitelist list size down.

Thanks

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

The file /home/USERNAME/.spamassassin/user_prefs will be overwritten by Directadmin and you will loose your customization. In order to achieve the desired you might need to disable DirectAdmin overwriting the file, or use a different file for comments. Unless there are POST/PRE hooks that can be used for this.

 

[jigster]

Good point, thanks. I will have to think again!

 

[zEitEr]

Found these hooks:

- spamassassin_edit_pre.sh
- spamassassin_edit_post.sh
- spamassassin_destroy_pre.sh


See https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1702 and https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=566 for more details.

 

[jigster]

Thanks for your help/suggestions. I've changed my roundcube plugin to add the timestamp/whitelist details to a separate file so I can use that for removing old listings with a cron.