_STARS(*)_ Problem

[Dean Maunder]

Excellent, thank you very much. I look forward to the next release.

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:47 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: _STARS(*)_ Problem

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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