Mail loss after upgrading to 4.40.11-1 due to missing .rules suffix

[Julian Field]

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Thanks for highlighting that. I try to encourage people to always use a
.rule or .rules filename suffix, but it's definitely one for the FAQ.
It is probably adding a header called that, or trying to forward to that
as an email address.
The upgrade_MailScanner_conf script knows nothing about the contents of
the options or the versions it is upgrading from or to, so adding any
checks in there is pretty much impossible.

Menno Jansz wrote:

>Just upgraded an old version of SpamAssassin to the latest stable 4.40.11-1
>
>The config file between this version and the old version I was installing
>from had changed the ""Spam Actions", "High Scoring Spam Actions", and
>associated items to now enforce a .rule or .rules suffix. Not having the
>suffix causes the mail to be "lost", no error and causes output in the log
>file of the action as being the filename converted to lower case (thus very
>confusing). Only after some code debugging did I spot the change, if only I
>had spotted the comment in the config file :)
>
>May be worth highlighting this in the upgrade_MailScanner_conf script so
>others dont make the same mistake.
>
>Cheers,
>Menno
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