Filtering problem

[Martin Hepworth]

Howard Robinson wrote:
> Dear list
> This (coincidentally) is another filter query. I have looked at EXAMPLES & README and it appears to confirm what I have set.
> 
> I am having a problem trying to stop MailScanner filtering out HTML & script
> I am sending myself an email with html script in it for testing. 
> In my MailScanner.conf I have included
> 
> Allow Script Tags = %rules-dir%/script.rules
> Non Spam Actions = %rules-dir%/striphtml.rules
> note %rules-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/rules
> 
> in /etc/MailScanner/rules/script.rules I have
> 
> To:     hrobinson at harper-adams.ac.uk    yes
> To:     howard at harper-adams.ac.uk       yes
> # I tried FromOrTo: on both these with no different result
> FromOrTo:       default no
> 
> in /etc/MailScanner/rules/striphtml.rules I have
> 
> To:     hrobinson at harper-adams.ac.uk deliver
> To:     howard at harper-adams.ac.uk deliver
> # I tried FromOrTo: on both these with no different result
> FromOrTo:       default striphtml deliver
> (spaces are tabs by the way)
>  
> In Maillog the following lines relate to the email, Validipdaddress & Validrelay changed from real one.
> 
> Nov 15 16:25:17 blackhole2 MailScanner[29444]: Message kAFGOisP029475 from VALIDIPADDRESS (hrobinson at harper-adams.ac.uk) to harper-adams.ac.uk is not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.53, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, BAYES_00 -0.05, HTML_80_90 0.15, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_NONELEMENT_00_10 0.00, NO_REAL_NAME 0.01, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS 0.67) 
> A few lines later
> Nov 15 16:27:22 blackhole2 MailScanner[29444]: Content Checks: Detected and will convert HTML message to plain text in kAFGOisP029475 
> A few lines later
> Nov 15 16:28:30 blackhole2 sendmail[30284]: kAFGOisP029475: to=howard at gw.harper-adams.ac.uk, delay=00:03:46, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=125149, relay=VALIDRELAY. [VALIDIPADDRESS], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok)
> 
> On Mailwatch the details of the message has the line  kAFGOisP029475 
> Non Spam Actions = %rules-dir%/striphtml.rules
> 
> It must have html in as it's being picked up in Maillog.
> Mailscanner is using the striphtml.rules as mailwatch says it is and that's confirmed in maillog but so it should follow the rule!
> I can't help feeling I am missing something that will be blatently obvious but so far it remains a mistery.
> Am I right in thinking that the filters will be carried out before it looks at the aliases list. Logically I can't see it working otherwise. 
> Any ideas on what else could be amiss.
> Thanks
> 
> 

Howard

I think the default action action on striphtml.rules is invalid. See the 
comments above the "Non Spam Actions" for valid actions


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Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
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