Beta 4.50.4 released -- faster than 4.49

[Rick Cooper]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Randal, Phil
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:36 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Beta 4.50.4 released -- faster than 4.49
>
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>
> Not just auto-learning - if I detect a flood of low-scoring spam and
> manually sa-learn it then I want any new Bayes score to be effective
> ASAP.
>
> With this new infrastructure in place it should be possible to introduce
> some spam flooding detection into MailScanner.  You'd then need a
> permitted-flooders whitelist too, of course.
>
> As a completely unrelated aside, www.mailscanner.info is inaccessible
> here at the moment.
>

I would think if caching is going to be implemented there needs to be a
command line, or separate program, that will allow the admin to flush the
cache at will. For this very reason. Assuming (I haven't looked at the new
releases) that the spam, virus, etc caches are in different tables, I would
think a way to flush one, or all should be implemented, for the very reasons
described above. Not to mention, for instance, suppose a message is flagged
as spam and a user requests the sender be whitelisted? Again not having
looked at the code, what happens if the sender resends the exact same
message expecting it to come through again *to that user*? Ok, I just looked
at the table creation code and do not see a sender address, so if I add the
sender to an SA whitelist how do I tell MS to updated or ignore the cache?
Perhaps if the sender address is added to the cache information then a
utility could be developed fairly easily that would allow the system admin
to run it with a sender address and have the cache record flagged as recheck
or, removed all together, for any cached information relating to that sender
address? It would appear that since the table is created any time it is
missing, flushing the cache would be as simple as removing the table and
restarting MS.

Rick


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