[sam] SAM + LDAP Backend

[Gary C. New]

Thank you for differentiating the two for me.

One last question:  Does sam only work with the HEAD
version of horde + imp or can it be used with their
respective stable releases, now?

Respectfully,


Gary


--- "amith at xalan.com" <amith at xalan.com> wrote:
> The way SpamAssassin works usually is to
> 
> 1) figure out who the mail was sent to
> 2) figure out their home directory
> 3) look for the prefs file in the home directory
> 4) if prefs file not found then use the global one
> 
> The nice thing about the SQL based backend for SAM
> prefs is that its all stored
> in the database and makes it nice for
> administration.  You could conceivably
> write a driver to support the text files, but imho
> that would be way too
> complicated and not worth it.  its easier to throw
> mysql on the machine and use
> that then write a text based driver for SAM due to
> the way that SpamAssassin
> sets up its config files.
> 
> As far as ingo goes, it is like a web based frontend
> for filters that you
> define.  Right now it only support cyrus, but its
> being changed to perform
> general filtering for IMP.  the difference is that
> Ingo/Sieve was not designed
> to designate SPAM from non-SPAM.  Sure you can write
> a filter that does a good
> job, but SpamAssassin is supposed to be much more
> sophisticated by using rules
> and Bayesain filtering (the newer versions anyway)
> 
> Amith
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from garycnew at yahoo.com
> -----
>     Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
>     From: "Gary C. New" <garycnew at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: "Gary C. New" <garycnew at yahoo.com>
>  Subject: Re: [sam] SAM + LDAP Backend
>       To: "amith at xalan.com" <amith at xalan.com>
> 
> That was the quickest, non-automated reply I've ever
> received from a mailing list!  Thanks.
> 
> If it doesn't make sense to use ldap as the backend
> for sam because spamassassin doesn't use it; doesn't
> spamassassin provide for text file based storage of
> rules?  Does sam provide this type of backend for
> text
> file based storage?
> 
> What's the difference between sam and ingo?  Ingo
> seems to be trying to accomplish some of the same
> filtering functionality, but using sieve text based
> files.
> 
> Thanks for you assistance.
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> --- "amith at xalan.com" <amith at xalan.com> wrote:
> > | Does sam currently support the use of ldap as a
> > | backend?
> >
> > I don't think it makes sense to support ldap as a
> > backend for SAM because as far
> > as i know (and maybe this has changed)
> SpamAssassin
> > only support a SQL backend.
> >  All SAM does is allow users to change their
> > whitelist/blacklist and other
> > SpamAssassin config items.  SpamAssassin actually
> > reads out of the database the
> > preferences for each user when assigning a score
> to
> > the e-mail.  While SAM is
> > written to support multiple backends, i don't
> think
> > SpamAssassin is.
> >
> > Amith
> >
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