Suggestion box re spam scores

[Chris W. Parker]

Denis Beauchemin <mailto:Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA>
    on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:47 AM said:

> Try this patch to Message.pm:
> --- Message.pm     2004-07-21 13:41:49.000000000 -0400
> +++ Message.pm.test     2004-07-21 13:42:06.000000000 -0400

[snip]

> Beware!  I did not test this... but it should work 8-)

honestly i've never used the 'patch' command so here's what i did.

1. i made a back up of my original Message.pm file.
2. then i made a file called Message.patch that contained the following:

--- Message.pm     2004-07-21 13:41:49.000000000 -0400
+++ Message.pm.test     2004-07-21 13:42:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -907,7 +907,8 @@
   # if it's spam AND they want to modify the subject line AND it's not
   # already been modified by another of your MailScanners.
   my $spamtag = MailScanner::Config::Value('spamsubjecttext', $this);
-  $spamtag =~ s/_SCORE_/$scoretext/;
+  my $scoretextfmt = sprintf "%06.2f", $this->{sascore};
+  $spamtag =~ s/_SCORE_/$scoretextfmt/;
   if ($this->{isspam} && !$this->{ishigh} &&
       MailScanner::Config::Value('spamprependsubject',$this) &&
       !$global::MS->{mta}->TextStartsHeader($this, 'Subject:',
$spamtag)) {

3. then i ran 'patch Message.pm Message.patch' and all it said was
'patching Message.pm'.
4. then i ran 'service MailScanner restart'

at this point i've received two emails with high enough spam scores that
the subject gets modified but they still look like "{Spam?}(n)" instead
of "{Spam?}(n.nn)" or however you setup the formatting.

where did i go wrong?


thanks,
chris.

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