webbug replacement ruleset?

Wed May 10 19:11:23 IST 2006

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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Julian,
>
> One of my howling users has her Wall Street Journal email subscriptions
> mangled, so (behold) I will use the Power of MailScanner (TM) to snag
> a message via a ruleset:
>
> This should leave me the raw qf/df files in quarantine that I can then
> send along.  This might take a day or so, depending on WSJ mailings and
> settings that I have to tweak.
Thanks. I'll publish a beta as soon as I can.
>   When I can figure out how to use rulesets, it is the coolest thing 
> about MailScanner.
They are dead simple.
Instead of stating a simple value in a MailScanner setting
Setting = value
they provide a way of changing the "value" depending on the sender and 
recipient addresses of the mail message.
That's all there is to it.

So if, for the option "Sign Clean Messages" you want to say "no" to mail 
going to your own domain "lawyers.com" and you want to say "yes" to all 
other mail, then you just say
To: lawyers.com no
FromOrTo: default yes

The "FromOrTo: default" line is the one that says "use this for all 
other mail".

If, in "Non-Spam Actions", you want to say "deliver store" for mail from 
wsj.com and "deliver" for all other mail, then you just say
From: wsj.com deliver store
FromOrTo: default deliver

You can use all sorts of things instead of just "wsj.com". You can 
specify any user, any group of users, you can use wildcards, you can 
specify the IP address it came from (very useful for saying "use this 
value for all messages from my PC's, regardless of the addresses they 
are using"), or you can even harness the power of full regular 
expressions which can be used to say just about anything.

But the value on the right-hand side of a rule is always just the value 
you want to use for that configuration setting with that bunch of email 
addresses.

I just don't quite understand why people have trouble understanding 
this, I think they believe it's all more complicated and clever than it 
really is.

> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 17:07:51 +0100
>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: webbug replacement ruleset?
>>
>> Please can you send me a screwed message?
>> The only one I have been sent so far renders just fine in a web browser.
>>
>> On 10 May 2006, at 14:24, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>
>>> Julian,
>>>
>>> I need to turn off this web bug replacement option because the howls
>>> are growing louder and more numerous.  How to operate like before
>>> 4.53.8?  Just set
>>>
>>> Web Bug Replacement =
>>>
>>> ie, nothing after the equals?
>>>
>>> Jeff Earickson
>>> Colby College
>>>
>>> On Wed, 10 May 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 08:37:39 +0100
>>>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>>> Subject: Re: webbug replacement ruleset?
>>>> On 9 May 2006, at 21:27, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Julian,
>>>>> I got a howl from a user that her mailings from 
>>>>> savedsearches at ebay.com
>>>>> now comes sans pictures of the items that she is shopping for.  I
>>>>> suspect the new Web Bug Replacement feature.  I would like to do a
>>>>> ruleset here.  Would this work?
>>>>> #---don't do webbug replacement on selected sites
>>>>> From:   savedsearches at ebay.com  no
>>>>> #
>>>>> #---do replacement on everything else
>>>>> FromorTo:   default 
>>>>> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif
>>>>
>>>> No, you would want FromorTo: Default yes
>>>> The option takes either yes or no values, so that's what the 
>>>> ruleset must feed it.
>>>>
>>>> Unless Ebay have screwed up their image size attributes in the img 
>>>> tag, MailScanner shouldn't be clobbering these images.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone else receiving reports of this problem?
>>>> -- 
>>>> Julian Field
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