FollowUp: SV: SV: SV: SV: Spamassassin and header tagging

[Jim Levie]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:02, Julian Field wrote:
> At 12:08 16/10/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >I noticed that even if the score is 34 it will only put 20 sss...
> >in the header, I that because the
> >#high spamassassin score = 20  ?
> >Just curiouse...
> >
> >X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (score=33.2, required 5,
> >         HOME_EMPLOYMENT, etc.....
> >X-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssssssssssssssssssss
>
> I can't reproduce this behaviour, it appears to work okay. What happens if
> you set the high spamassassin score to 10? Do they all get chopped at 10
> characters then?
>
> The code looks fine (let's hope it's not another subtle perl bug...)
>
He's not talking about the v4 code, but rather about a patched copy of
the v3 code that implements the same type of X-MailScanner-SpamScore
header. My patch has code that limits the number of 's's in the string
to be a max of 20. Obviously the max could be higher, I've just never
seen a need for it to be more that 20. My original implementation of the
SpamScore (before V4 existed) didn't impose a max limit. But then
someone set a couple of SpamAssassin scores to 100 (to force certain
messages to be spam) and a message hit about three of those. Some of the
client filters just weren't prepared to handle a string that long and
they went ga-ga. You might want to consider imposing a max length on the
SpamScore string in v4.

I know that you are trying to get v4 "out the door", but I'd invite you
to take a look at my previous message in this thread and consider using
that patch (or a modified version thereof) in the v3 code. There are a
lot of differences between v3 & v4 (and I think they are good) and I'm
sure that there will be folks continuing to use the v3 code for a while
yet until V4 stabilizes and other things that a site might have that are
dependent on the V3 structure and files can be re-done for v4. The
SpamScore capability could be something that others still running V3
might find useful.
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