_STARS(*)_ Problem

[Julian Field]

I have just added it for you. It will be in the stable release due  
out this weekend (or the start of next week).

You will be able to put _STARS_ in the subject line tag for spam and  
high-scoring spam, which will be replaced by a string of whatever  
character you have chosen in the "Spam Score Character" setting.

It will have a max length of about 60 so you can't launch a denial-of- 
service attack by exploiting any bugs when other packages receive  
messages that have extremely long headers.

On 28 Jul 2005, at 00:20, Dean Maunder wrote:

> OK, is there any intent to support this in the future?  We have  
> recently
> moved from having our mail hosted to hosting ourselves and some of my
> users are complaining as they used to filter on the number of  
> 'ssss' in
> the subject.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2005 9:07 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: _STARS(*)_ Problem
>
> Dean M wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have recently installed MailScanner 4.43.8 and almost everything is
>> working great!  The problem is the Spam Score subject.  I see Spam
>> Score ssssss etc in the header, but if I try and use [Spam Score
>> _STARS(s)_] in the subject I get exactly that attached to any spam
>> messages, rather than [Spam Score ssssssss] Has anyone found the same
>> problem?
>>
>
>
> MailScanner doesn't use SpamAssassin's markup generation, it does it's
> own. All message tagging options are configured in MailScanner's  
> config
> files.
>
> Anything relating to message tagging that you set it spamassassin's
> config files (local.cf, etc) will be ignored. (however, options like
> use_bayes, etc will still be used as they affect how SA calculates
> scores, and MS does use that part of SA).
>
> AFAIK, the _STARS_ bit is a spamassassin option, and isn't  
> supported by
> MailScanner at all.
>
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