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

[Julian Field]

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I have just updated the patches so that there is now a set for 
SpamAssassin 3.1.0. Without all 3 patches applied, MCP won't be able to 
see inside binary attachments (such as Word docs).

Scott Silva wrote:

>Julian Field spake the following on 9/20/2005 1:01 PM:
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>>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.
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>>Johnny Stork wrote:
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>>>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?
>>>
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>>>Scott Silva wrote:
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>>>>Johnny Stork spake the following on 9/20/2005 10:27 AM:
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>>>>>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
>>>>>
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>>>>># 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
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>>>>I don't see any rules with "-" dashes, they all have '_' underscores.
>>>>Maybe this isn't an allowed character in a rule name.
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>>>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.
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>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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