New speed benchmark

[Glenn Steen]

On 04/02/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> > BTW, Jules ... Could you, pretty please, look at my post about typos
> > in actions? Or has that area been covered extensively before?
> >
> A patch for Message.pm is attached. Apply the patch with
>
> cd /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner
> gunzip Message.pm.patch.gz
> patch < Message.pm.patch
>
> then restart MailScanner.
>
> It logs the error message to syslog and then adds the "deliver" action
> to whatever you have set, just for safety so that no message is dropped
> because of your typo.
>
> Due to the the list of spam actions is now parsed, as it has arbitrary
> strings (including possibly multiple spaces) for headers, and email
> addresses in it, it is no longer just a list of possible words. So it
> cannot be caught by --lint.
>
> So it can only be detected when it is called at run-time, hence the
> extra safety measure of adding the "deliver" action.
>
> Let me know how you get on.
>
Applied to my 4.50.14, working perfectly (reintroduced the error, and
it still delivered... And carped nicely in the error log).
Thank you.
Will this be in the next release?

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