Tagging the subject line of e-mail

[Julian Field]

Can you give us an example of what you mean?

At 04:54 01/09/2003, you wrote:
>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.
> >>

--
Julian Field
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