Suggestion box re spam scores

[Denis Beauchemin]

Chris W. Parker wrote:

>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-)
>>    
>>
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>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?
>
>  
>
Chris,

You're using mailscanner-4.31.6-1, right?

Edit Message.pm and go to line 907.  Make sure the line:

$spamtag =~ s/_SCORE_/$scoretext/;

has been replaced by:
my $scoretextfmt = sprintf "%06.2f", $this->{sascore};
$spamtag =~ s/_SCORE_/$scoretextfmt/;


That's what the patch command should have done.

If that's OK, restart MS and make sure all MS processes have been 
restarted by "ps -ef|grep MailScanner" (look at the start time).  If 
some old process is still running, stop MS, make sure no process remains 
and start it back.

Hope it works.

Denis

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