[sam] SAM + LDAP Backend

[amith at xalan.com]

Check http://www.horde.org/source/versions.php

Based on what it says in there i think you need HEAD

Amith


Quoting "Gary C. New" <garycnew at yahoo.com>:

| 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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