Released: Plugin Spam Scanner

[Julian Field]

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Various typos fixed. 4.43.6 now available.

Julian Field wrote:

> Can you check you have got a 
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/ConfigDefs.pl file that includes the 
> word "CustomSpamScanner".
>
> Do
> cd /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner
> grep CustomSpamScanner ConfigDefs.pl
>
> You might have got a ConfigDefs.pl.rpmnew or something odd.
>
> If something has gone wrong with the upgrade and you can't figure it 
> out, please can you give me remote root access so I can test it? It 
> worked fine on my systems, but then the usual "works for me" response 
> isn't very helpful.
>
> Rakesh wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 19:05 +0100, Julian Field wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> I have just released beta version 4.34.5.
>>> This includes the Plugin Custom Spam Scanner facility which some of 
>>> you have been requesting for a while.
>>>
>>> See the comments in MailScanner.conf and 
>>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/GenericSpamScanner.pm 
>>> for more details.
>>>
>>> But basically you get a function called with the basic envelope 
>>> details about the message, and the contents of the message headers 
>>> and body. Your function returns a score for the message which is 
>>> added to the SpamAssassin score for the message, and a text report 
>>> which is added to the SpamCheck header.
>>>
>>> You can easily turn that into a call to an external program to 
>>> process this information and produce a result. Sample code is 
>>> provided to do this.
>>>
>>> Let me know how you get on.
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>> I have just installed it and did a upgrade_mailscanner_conf. I was doing
>> an upgrade from 4.43.3-1 to 4.43.5
>>
>> The maillog there the following errors
>>
>> Jun 27 00:20:14 gw MailScanner[13581]: Syntax error(s) in configuration
>> file:
>> Jun 27 00:20:14 gw MailScanner[13581]: Unrecognised keyword
>> "customspamscannertimeouthistory" at line 1489
>> Jun 27 00:20:14 gw MailScanner[13581]: Unrecognised keyword
>> "customspamscannertimeout" at line 1476
>> Jun 27 00:20:14 gw MailScanner[13581]: Unrecognised keyword
>> "maxcustomspamscannertimeouts" at line 1481
>> Jun 27 00:20:14 gw MailScanner[13581]: Aborting due to syntax errors
>> in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>
>> Did I miss something ?
>>  
>>
>

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