Spamassassin reports

[Julian Field]

I've already got a pipe, so I'll just add the required_hits to the info it
passes back.

At 20:40 17/05/2002, you wrote:
>I didn't change the logic flow at all. I simply passed back additional
>information from the child to the parent through the pipe. The return status
>is still the number of hits as it is in the code now, and the existing logic
>uses that to determine if the message was classified as spam or not.  The
>parent was modified slightly to use do a read from the pipe after the wait
>statement to get the additional info the child wrote to the pipe, and the
>line where you create the header record includes the additional information
>returned.
>
>This is defintely a minimalist approach, but using the pipe provides me with
>the ability to return any info I want from the child, including the full
>report SpamAssassin produces.
>
>I'll post the CVS changes.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Field [mailto:jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:33 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Spamassassin reports
> >
> >
> > What do you do if the score < required_hits?
> >
> > At 20:06 17/05/2002, you wrote:
> > >The changes to add some additional info to the
> > X-MailScanner-SpamCheck
> > >header are quite simple, if changes the header rather than
> > the message
> > >itself suffices. I used a pipe created just before the
> > fork() statement in
> > >sendmail.pl to provide a connection to the child process,
> > wrote back some
> > >additional information to the parent (in my case, I wanted
> > to know the
> > >number of hits, the required number to be considered spam,
> > and the list of
> > >tests triggered by the mail) using the
> > Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus
> > >object, in the same way the child currently gets the
> > get_hits number. The
> > >only twist is that the get_hits value is returned as the
> > exit status of the
> > >child process to the parent, and it's limited to a numeric
> > value. Hence the
> > >use of the pipe to pass arbitrary content back.
> >
> > --
> > 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