Consistency improvement of %org-name%

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat May 22 14:01:36 IST 2004


All done.
I'll put out a beta very soon.

At 16:15 21/05/2004, you wrote:
>Good idea.
>Depending on the weather this weekend, I might take a look at it.
>Oh, hang on, just checked the weather forecast, looks nice and sunny :-)
>
>At 15:28 21/05/2004, you wrote:
>>Once upon a time, way back in the early days of MailScanner, the headers
>>it inserted had names of the form:
>>    X-MailScanner:
>>    X-MailScanner-SpamCheck:
>>etc.
>>
>>It then became apparent that it would be good practice to tailor these to
>>each site.  Thus "%org-name%" was introduced into "MailScanner.conf",
>>coupled with default values that used it:
>>    X-%org-name%-MailScanner:
>>    X-%org-name%-MailScanner-SpamCheck:
>>
>>So sites following this recommended good practice automatically do the
>>"Right Thing" with simply a single adjustment in the "MailScanner.conf"
>>that defines "%org-name%" (the "Mail Header").
>>
>>But the files (e.g. "sender.spam.report.txt") in the "reports/*"
>>directories still (version 4.30.3) begin:
>>    From: "MailScanner" <$localpostmaster>
>>    To: $from
>>    Subject: {Bounce} Unsolicited commercial email rejected
>>    X-MailScanner: generated
>>
>>Note that last line.  Could these "reports/*/*.txt" files be re-written
>>to use a similar default mechanism?  Something along the lines of:
>>    X-$orgname-MailScanner:
>>or:
>>    $mailheader:
>>(give or take some syntactic sugar).  I suppose this might entail some
>>code adjustment, but I suspect this would be minor.
>>
>>Then the emails (relatively few) generated from within MailScanner
>>automatically by default become consistent with those (the many) that pass
>>through.
>>
>>Julian:  It's probably the sort of thing that you could do quicker than
>>any of the rest of us because of your deep knowledge of the (your!) code.
>>But if you want me to take a preliminary look, let me know.

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