spam score for each test in header

[Julian Field]

With the "patch" command :-)

cd /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner
patch < ConfigDefs.pl.patch
patch < SA.pm.patch

and similar for MailScanner.conf.

At 20:29 15/05/2003, you wrote:
>How do we apply this patch?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:41 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: spam score for each test in header
>
>
>3 patches attached.
>
>At 19:19 15/05/2003, you wrote:
> >That looks great! :)
> >
> >Would it be possible for you to post a patch that implements just the
> >following?  We aren't ready to upgrade to the latest version of MS until
> >we can fully test it (using Sophos SAVI, etc).  But the change below
> >would easily be testable and implementable in the short run :-)
> >
> >Scott
> >
> >--On Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:18 PM +0100 Julian Field
> ><mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> >
> >>Very good idea. No sooner said than done :-)
> >>
> >>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=7.8, required 5,
> >>          DATE_IN_PAST_12_24 0.21, DRASTIC_REDUCED 1.54, HOME_EMPLOYMENT
> >>1.50,          INVALID_DATE 0.57, INVALID_MSGID 0.38, NO_REAL_NAME 0.73,
> >>          ONCE_IN_LIFETIME 0.74, REMOVE_SUBJ 0.81, UNDISC_RECIPS 1.44)
> >>
> >>Does that look okay to you?
> >>I would like to keep the original sort order (alphabetical) to make the
> >>code simpler.
> >>
> >>I'll release something later this evening if you like. It will make it to
> >>the stable release at the start of June.
> >>
> >>At 15:54 15/05/2003, you wrote:
> >>>Actually, I have been thinking the same thing.  Users would like to
> >>>know *which* rule added the most to the total score, or if there were
> >>>rules that subtracted off some point, it would be nice to know which
> >>>ones did that and by how much...  Obviously, I have access to the rule
> >>>files and can look them up, but most cannot.
> >>>
> >>>If we had an option to turn on the score values in the header, it
> >>>would be quite useful!
> >>>
> >>>Scott
> >>>
> >>>--On Thursday, May 15, 2003 3:07 PM +0100 Sylvain Phaneuf
> >>><sylvain.phaneuf at IMSU.OXFORD.AC.UK> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I don't know whether this has been discussed before, but I am wondering
> >>>>how difficult would that be to put the score of each spam test in the
> >>>>X-MailScanner-Information header?
> >>>>
> >>>>e.g. MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.1 ; IN_REP_TO -3.3 ; DATE_INFUTURE_12_24 2.37 ;
> >>>>SPACES_IN_SUBJECT 2.42 ; MS_EXCHANGE -5.80
> >>>>
> >>>>Every now and then we have users who are suprised that a specific
> >>>>message has not been picked up as spam and we need to explain to them.
> >>>>Other less frequent situations are when we try to determine why a
> >>>>message is a false positive. We need to manually dig out the scores for
> >>>>each test and then see what would need changing.
> >>>>
> >>>>This is a feature I have seen with some commercial products, and it
> >>>>seems to be popular.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Sylvain
> >>>>
> >>>>===========================================================
> >>>>Sylvain Phaneuf --- Computing Manager   | phone : +44 (0)1865 221323
> >>>>Information Management Services Unit  -  Medical Sciences Division
> >>>>Oxford University                               | email :
> >>>>sylvain.phaneuf at imsu.ox.ac.uk  Room 3A25B John Radcliffe Hospital      |
> >>>>fax :  +44 (0) 1865 221322 Oxford   OX3 9DU   England
> >>>>===========================================================
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>--
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> >>>   UNIX Systems Engineer                  mailto:adkinss at ohio.edu
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> >>
> >>--
> >>Julian Field
> >>www.MailScanner.info
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> >
> >
> >
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> >   UNIX Systems Engineer                  mailto:adkinss at ohio.edu
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