Request for comments

[Alex Broens]

On 7/20/2007 3:14 PM, Julian Field wrote:
> That would be easy to add. Would many people use it?
> It would just be an "Adjust SpamAssassin Score" configuration option.
> 
> I'm still unconvinced that adding the Subject matching would actually 
> get used by many people. Very few people have said "yes, I have a 
> definite need and a use for it".

-1 as it won't bypass SA scanning anyway, just override the score.
A shortcircuited rule does save resources.

imo, Post-SA actions based on SA rules would definitely be nice to have. 
(see use in matrixing for business surroundings)

FromTo:blah at blah SA_RULEXYZ  Action: [Redirect:Delete:Quarantine:etc]

wasn't John Sinteur already suggesting this?

> Steven Andrews wrote:
>> A little off the topic here, but regarding new features...what about
>> being able to add score to a TLD or domain by rule?
>>
>> Ex:
>>
>> Gmail.com        yes    1.0
>> Hotmail.com        yes    10.0
>> Mydominan.com    yes    -10.0
>> Otherdomain.com    no
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of John
>> Wilcock
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:27 AM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Request for comments
>>
>> Matt Kettler wrote:
>>  
>>> No, since when are rulesets in MailScanner in any way redundant with
>>>     
>> SA?
>>  
>>> SA can't do something like:
>>>     quarantine any message with subject text "You've won"
>>>     delete any message with the subject text "postcard"
>>>
>>> Sure you can use SA's rule scores to force your "high scoring spam 
>>> action", but you can't do *BOTH* of the above actions at the same
>>>     
>> time.
>>  
>>> But MailScanner rulesets can.
>>>     
>>
>> An alternative suggestion would be to allow MailScanner rulesets based
>> on SA rule names. This could be potentially far more flexible than just
>> based on the Subject:, enabling you to take action on just about
>> anything in the message. Simply write a custom rule, score it at 0.001
>> if you don't want it to affect the spam score, and trigger a MailScanner
>> action as a result. Got doubts about a new rule's false positive rate? 
>> No problem, quarantine all messages that hit the rule. The possibilities
>> are endless.
>>
>> John.
>>
>>   
> 
> Jules
>