Mailscanner Spam Whitelisting

[Rose, Bobby]

Well I can take it out and the message will still get tagged so
technically you are supporting your code.  If you aren't using this then
wouldn't it be wise to remove it to speed SA calls up then because
$SAResult = ($spamness->is_spam())?1:0; is in sender.pl and is occurring
even if $SAResult isn't being used for anything.

Regardless of all that, if an address is in the whitelist, should
SAForkAndTest even be called?  That's the point of the issue.  If it is
getting called for even whitelistings, then wouldn't it be better not
todo that to speed things up.  If it's not supposed to get called for a
whitelisting, then why is it.  This is the 3.22.7 code.



-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:34 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner Spam Whitelisting


At 17:27 27/07/2002, you wrote:
>I see the confusion but this is a report file.  In sender.pl, I have 
>some extra code

So now I'm supporting your code, not mine? That's novel...

>  that if $SaResult is true, I then get the score and if
>its < 30 then I get the whole rewite ($spamness->rewrite_mail ()) and 
>send that to a file called spr$mID.  I do this so I can watch for false

>positives and report to razor.
>
>The output that you are seeing is from that code which only runs if
>  $SAResult = ($spamness->is_spam())?1:0; is true

And if you study my code, you'll discover that I don't use is_spam().
There's a reason: it's very unreliable.

>It shouldn't be true if the message has a trigger that's whitelisted 
>though correct?  Or are you running everything thru SA and then 
>checking the whitelist?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 10:28 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Mailscanner Spam Whitelisting
>
>
>At 14:59 27/07/2002, you wrote:
> >Where do you see that?  I'm running SA from Mailscanner.
>
>These are all created by SA running from something other than 
>MailScanner. If it's not you running it this way, then someone in the 
>path from the sender to you must be running it this way.
>
> > >Subject: *****SPAM***** CBSMW After The Bell Report: Senate 
> > >confirms
> >SEC
> > >nominees
> > >X-DCC-servers-Metrics: eeyore 1049; Body=1 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2
> > >X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.2 required=5.0
> > >
> >tests=FWD_MSG,INVALID_DATE,FORGED_RCVD_FOUND,COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED,
> > >               OPT_IN,CLICK_BELOW,ONLY_COST,LINES_OF_YELLING,
> > >               HTML_WITH_BGCOLOR,CLICK_HERE_LINK,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,
> > >               WEIRD_PORT,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2,
> > >               MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,AWL
> > >         version=2.40
> > >X-Spam-Flag: YES
> > >X-Spam-Level: *********
> > >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.40 (devel $Id: 
> > >SpamAssassin.pm,v 1.102 2002/07/18 15:18:39 jmason Exp $)
> > >X-Spam-Prev-Content-Type: text/html
> > >X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
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>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ