Tagging the subject line of e-mail

ash ashley at IMS.TELSTRA.COM.AU
Mon Sep 1 04:54:36 IST 2003


Did this ever get resolved?

I just upgraded from 4.21-9 to 4.23-10 and nolonger get any of the subject
line modifications notices that use the curly brackets, other than if I set
"Scanned Modify Subject" , for example any violation be it a virus ,bad file
name/type receives the subject line "Warning: E-mail viruses detected", I
haven't had a spam message yet to see if that notification has also stopped
working

from my conf file
Virus Modify Subject = yes
Virus Subject Text = {Virus?}
Filename Modify Subject = yes
Filename Subject Text = {Filename?}
Content Modify Subject = yes
Content Subject Text = {Dangerous Content?}
Spam Modify Subject = yes
Spam Subject Text = {Spam?}
High Scoring Spam Modify Subject = yes
High Scoring Spam Subject Text = {Spam?}

running perl 5.6.0

regards

ash

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:41:27 -0400, Collins, Kevin
<KCollins at NESBITTENGINEERING.COM> wrote:

>Mike,
>
>Thanks for responding.
>
>I'm planning on adding SpamAssassin later in the project.  Is it required to
>make the system function as I want?  I didn't get that from the
>documentation.  They way I read the docs, SpamAssassin just improves
>MailScanner's abilities.
>
>Kevin
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Kercher [mailto:mike at CAMAROSS.NET]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:59 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: Tagging the subject line of e-mail
>>
>>
>> Are you using SpamAssassin?  If not, I'd HIGHLY recommend it!
>>  You can also
>> set Log Spam = yes and watch your maillog after restarting
>> MailScanner.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list
>> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>> Of Collins, Kevin
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:31 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Tagging the subject line of e-mail
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've just completed installing MS v4.22-5 onto a Red Hat 8
>> machine to act as
>> my company's "SPAM Filter".  First, I want to say THANKS for
>> creating such a
>> project and for making it available to the masses for free.
>>
>> A little background:
>>
>> MailScanner machine:
>> Red Hat 8.0 (fully up2dated)
>> Sendmail 8.12.8
>> Perl 5.8.0
>> ClamAV 0.60 (compiled from source)
>> Sendmail set to relay everything to internal Exchange Server
>>
>> Everything seems to be working fine - I've even let a few e-mails pass
>> through the machine for testing.  Which is why I'm writing; I
>> now have a
>> question.
>>
>> First, of the 20 some odd messages that have passed through
>> MailScanner, it
>> has tagged 3 as SPAM and one of them as having a Virus
>> (actually it was an
>> HTML Form in the message).  The "Virus" message behaved as
>> expected - the
>> e-mail was deleted and not passed on and I got a notification of the
>> deletion.  But the remaining messages aren't working as I
>> expected them to
>> (I think).
>>
>> I've configured MailScanner to modify the subject line of
>> every e-mail it
>> touches to include {Scanned} at the beginning. (This is to
>> let me - and
>> everyone else - know that MS is working)  In addition I want all SPAM
>> messages flagged with {Spam} as the beginning of the subject line and
>> {Virus} for those that were found to have Viruses.
>>
>> To this point, all of the e-mail coming in (save the "Virus" message
>> mentioned above) have only had the word {Scanned} pre-pended
>> to the Subject
>> Line.  I've not seen the {Spam} label anywhere.  Here are the
>> (I think)
>> appropriate sections of the MailScanner.conf:
>>
>> --<snip>--
>> Scanned Modify Subject = start
>> Scanned Subject Text = {Scanned}
>> Virus Modify Subject = yes
>> Virus Subject Text = {Virus}
>> Filename Modify Subject = yes
>> Filename Subject Text = {Filename}
>> Spam Modify Subject = yes
>> Spam Subject Text = {Spam}
>> High Scoring Spam Modify Subject = yes
>> High Scoring Spam Subject Text = {Spam}
>> --<snip>--
>> Spam Checks = yes
>> Spam List = ORDB-RBL Infinite-Monkeys # MAPS-RBL+ costs money (except
>> .ac.uk)
>> Spam Domain List =
>> Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 5
>> Spam List Timeout = 10
>> Max Spam List Timeouts = 7
>> Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
>> Is Definitely Spam = no
>> --<snip>--
>>
>> >From this, is my description of how MailScanner should work valid?
>> >Have I
>> forgot to do something?  What do I need to change/add/delete
>> to make it work
>> as I describe?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin L. Collins, MCSE
>> Systems Manager
>> Nesbitt Engineering, Inc.
>>



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