spam score for each test in header

[Sylvain Phaneuf]

Brilliant !!!  Thanks Julian.

I am 100% happy with your solution.   But if I may push my luck...  How difficult would it be to transfer this header line into an attachment to the message named something like "spam_score_details.txt", and get the list of test & scores in a neat format with carriage returns after each score, and an explanation at the top for the user saying something like "Your MailScanner system has performed the following tests to determine if it was spam. Please see yout local IT officer for more details". Or leave us to create that piece of text so that we can add our contact details, etc.?

Just trying to make sure you don't get bored when your colleague is on leave next week...

Thanks again.

Sylvain


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>>> mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 15/05/2003 19:41:15 >>>
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
>>>>
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>>>>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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>>>
>>>
>>>
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