Feature Request: Multiple Levels of Actions

[Julian Field]

Implementing a file like you suggest is not necessarily very easy. As soon
as I do that, someone will want the ranges to be allowed to overlap, adding
the list of actions as appropriate (and what happens when they clash?).
Then you will need to be able to set this per user or per domain, so it has
to be setup from another ruleset.

So it's quite a bit of work, and I don't think it's necessary.
Read on...

This can already be very easily done with a small Custom Function.
In MailScanner.conf set
         Required SpamAssassin Score = 4
         Spam Subject Text = {Spam?}
         Spam Actions = deliver
         High Scoring SpamAssassin Score = 9
         High Scoring Spam Subject Text = {HIGH SPAM}
         High Scoring Spam Actions = &HighScoringSpamActions

Then in CustomConfig.pm

sub HighScoringSpamActions {
   my($message) = @_;

   my $score = $message->{sascore}; # Field names at top of Message.pm

   return 'forward jaearick at colby.edu' if $score<=12;
   return 'delete';
}

There, that wasn't too painful was it?


  At 20:35 13/05/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>
>I would sure use this setup too.  I would use it as:
>
>     #---deliver (hopefully) non-spam, less than 4
>     <4     deliver
>
>     #---deliver maybe-spam, range 4-9
>     4      modify "{Spam?}", deliver
>
>     #---let my procmail rules trap probable spam, range 9-12
>     9      modify "{HIGH SPAM}", forward jaearick at colby.edu
>
>     #---certain spam, delete it, range > 12
>     >12    delete
>
>Tis a great suggestion...
>
>--- Jeff Earickson
>
>On Tue, 13 May 2003, Derek Winkler wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:45:05 -0400
> > From: Derek Winkler <dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM>
> > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Feature Request: Multiple Levels of Actions
> >
> >
> > Feature request:
> >
> > I'd like to have another level of spam actions but instead of creating
> > Mid-scoring spam config options why not create  something like the rule
> > files...
> >
> > Spam Actions = /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules/spam.actions.rules
> >
> > spam.actions.rules would contain something like:
> >
> > 9       modify "{Spam?}", deliver
> > 15      modify "{Spam?}", striphtml, deliver
> > max     delete
> >
> > with the first line applying to mails which score 9 or below, the second to
> > >9 <=15, and the last for anything >15. You could have as many or few as
> > needed.
> >
> > This would eliminate the need for the following config options:
> >
> > Spam Modify Subject
> > Spam Subject Text
> > High Scoring Spam Modify Subject
> > High Scoring Spam Subject Text
> > Spam Actions
> > High Scoring Spam Actions
> >
> > I'd find this handy anyways,
> >
> > Derek Winkler
> > Security Administrator
> > Algorithmics Inc., Toronto
> > Tel: (416) 217-4107
> > Fax: (416) 971-6263
> > www.algorithmics.com
> >

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