SpamCopURI-0.19 seems broken

[Martin Hepworth]

Gerry

you don't need spamcop_uri plugin in SA 3.0 - it's included..the syntax
is kinda different for the uri rules though.

May I recommend you ask on the SA-users list for the correct 3.0 syntax.


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Gerry Doris wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 15:08, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>>Gang,
>>    I've been following the "BigEvil and Stuff" thread, and I too have been having
>>issues with SpamCopURI-0.19, eval: complaints and open_redirect_list complaints.
>>My setup: Solaris 9, SA 2.63, URI-1.31 (also tried 1.30), MS 4.31.6.
>>And perl 5.8.4: osname=solaris, osvers=2.9, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
>>
>>I downloaded Steve Swaney's version from http://www.fsl.com/support/
>>and followed the instructions, including cleaning out my copies of backhair,
>>bigevil, etc from my /etc/mail/spamassassin directory.  My lint output from
>>"spamassassin -D -p /etc/mail/spamassassin --lint" gives garbage like:
>>
>>Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: open_redirect_list
>>_spamcop_uri   snurl.com              *.snurl.com
>>(etc)
>>
>>and
>>
>>Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
>>     (syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/surbl_uri.cf, rule SPAMCOP_URI_RBL,
>>line 1, near "eval:"
>>syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/surbl_uri.cf, rule OB_URI_RBL, line 1, ne
>>ar "eval:"
>>syntax error at /etc/mail/spamassassin/surbl_uri.cf, rule OB_URI_RBL, line 9, ne
>>ar "}
>>     }"
>>)
>>
>>Following the advice of the list, I commented out the open_redirect lines, and
>>removed the "eval:" stuff in surbl_uri.cf to shut up these complaints.
>>
>>However -- I'm not convinced that this is the correct fix.  I did this on Friday
>>night and I got a TON of spam over the weekend.  Way more than usual.  Methinks
>>SpamCopURI-0.19 is useless, or neutered by the changes to surbl_uri.cf.
>>
>>How to *really* fix these errors???
>>
>>Jeff Earickson
>>Colby College
>
>
> I had the same error messages and was the one that commented out "eval:"
> to get it to stop complaining.  However, while that stopped the error
> messages SpamCopURI didn't seem to be working.
>
> I went back and reinstalled SA 2.63 and the two perl modules in Steve's
> message.  That fixed things.  I put the "eval:" line back in and
> uncommented the redirect lines.  All ran without complaints and I
> started seeing SA reports with SpamCopURI scores.
>
> --
> Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com>
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