4.50.6: SA cache, a syslog suggestion

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 13 20:35:37 GMT 2006



Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Julian,
>
> I upgraded to 4.50.6 today on Solaris 9; thank God for the MAQ
> Wiki and the tip there about SQLite (-lrt) for Solaris.  That
> one had me baffled for a while.
>
> A suggestion for the syslog output regarding caching.  Whilst
> grepping for "cache" in my syslog, I saw:
>
>   SpamAssassin cache hit for message k0DIeO6M000601
>
> so then I grepped for the messageID.  Another syslog related to
> this was:
>
>   Spam Actions: message k0DIeO6M000601 actions are [whatever]
>
> How about noting if the Spam Action was a result of caching, eg:
>
>   Spam Actions: message k0DIeO6M000601 actions are [whatever] (cached)
>
> if the action resulted from a hit in the SA cache? 
The actions are not cached, just the SpamAssassin result. So if a 
ruleset depending on the sender address had different spam actions, then 
it would be stating something wrong. The actions weren't as a result of 
the cache, they were as a result of the SpamAssassin cache as usual.

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