[MAILSCANNER] {MCP?} RE: [MAILSCANNER] Problem with new MCP rules?

[Scott Silva]

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Julian Field spake the following on 9/20/2005 1:01 PM:
> Have you tried my SpamAssassin 3.0.4 patches on SpamAssassin 3.1.0 yet?
> I would be very interested to hear if they apply okay.
> 
> Johnny Stork wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Julian and Scott, that fixed it. Was the name of the rule, just
>> changed to underscores. And yes Scott, the name of the rules file was
>> not *.cf, it is pbco_passwords.cf.
>>
>> Just tested it out, way too cool and even inside Word docs...excellent!!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>> Sent: September 20, 2005 12:28 PM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Problem with new MCP rules?
>>
>>
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Johnny Stork spake the following on 9/20/2005 10:27 AM:
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> After going through the instructions for coniguring MCP, I had no
>>>> problem getting MailScanner to identify subject or body text
>>>> contained in the default example rule file 10_example.cf. So I
>>>> created a new file with the extension *cf, with the contents below,
>>>> and resstared MailScanner. Going to the MailWatch interface, Tools,
>>>> and "Update MCP Rules Descriptions" and it correctly showed the new
>>>> rules listed below, But sending an email with only the word
>>>> "password" in the subject line got through just fine? What am I
>>>> missing?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # Rules for PBCO Message Content Protection
>>>> #
>>>>
>>>> header   PASSWORD-SUBJECT-RULE    Subject =~ /password/i
>>>> describe PASSWORD-SUBJECT-RULE    Banned Subject
>>>> score    PASSWORD-SUBJECT-RULE    5
>>>>
>>>> body     PASSWORD-BODY-RULE    /password/i
>>>> describe PASSWORD-BODY-RULE    Banned body text
>>>> score    PASSWORD-BODY-RULE    5
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I don't see any rules with "-" dashes, they all have '_' underscores.
>>> Maybe this isn't an allowed character in a rule name.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> SpamAssassin generates a Perl function for each rule, so only the
>> characters allowed in Perl function names are allowed in SpamAssassin
>> rule names. So "-" is certainly not allowed, as it is the arithmetic
>> "minus" operator.
>>
>>  
>>
> 
PerMsgStatus patch fails but the others apply clean.
I don't run MCP, but had some free time to at least try the patches.


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