Beta 4.50.4 released -- faster than 4.49

[Julian Field]

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On 5 Jan 2006, at 14:11, Rick Cooper wrote:

>> -----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
>>
> [...]
>>
>> 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.

You can flush the cache with this:

rm -f /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db
service MailScanner reload

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