Syntax for subject checking

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

Hmm... It's a shame a generic subject checking mechanism couldn't be
implemented. For instance:

Create MS new config item:

CheckSubject Rules = /path/to/subject.ruleset

Subject.ruleset:

#subject text to match          action  option
"[definitely spam]"             -
/path/to/spamaction.by.domain
"..JK.."                                sign
/path/to/JK.sign.rules
"..personal.."                  attachsig       /path/to/personal.sign.rules
Default                         sign            /path/to/default.sign.rules

Where spam.by.domain contains the actual action to take:

TO:     *@mydomain.com  Delete
TO:     *@testdomain.com        Attach, deliver

And if you could have an action in the subject.ruleset like: consume whereby
the search text is also removed from the subject then it would be great! So
you may have:

"..JK.."                sign, consume   /path/to/JK.sign.rules

Not too sure how much sense this makes - but it would apear to kill two
birds with one stone (for my requirement anyway!). But I guess it would take
a fair bit or re-writing to do :-(

Sam


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: 01 September 2003 10:18
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Syntax for subject checking


The reason you can't find it is that it's not there. Sorry.
I have been trying to come up with a decent answer to this problem myself,
too.

At 15:21 31/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm trying to implement the Is Definately Spam feature based on a tag
>[Possible Spam]in the subject ideally if this exists, MS should realise
>this is definately spam, log it as such and then look for the action it
>should take based on the users domain name etc..
>
>How would I do this in the Is Definately Spam ruleset file?  I've tried
>a few combinations and looked in the examples file, but it only seems
>to cover To and or From fields..
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>
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