Request for comments 3

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Jul 22 16:13:34 IST 2007


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How about this instead?

SpamAssassin Rule Actions = rulename=>action, rulename=>action, ....

the "rulename"s are the names of individual SpamAssassin rules, and the 
"action"s are list those in "Spam Actions". To specify multiple actions 
for a rule, you specify the rulename several times, with one action for 
each. Expressions with SpamAssassin rules are done with SpamAssassin 
meta-rules. If the rule hits, the action is taken.

I'll write a few examples of meta-rules so you can see how to write them 
in spam.assassin.rules.conf or wherever they need to go. Mr Kettler, can 
you correct me on this please?

Does this sound more useful than the previous suggestions?

Jules.

Julian Field wrote:
> * PGP Signed: 07/22/07 at 14:29:25
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>
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> Matt Kettler wrote:
>> 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 don't think that would be useful Julian. If they wanted to adjust 
>> the SA
>> score, that's easy to do in SA. It's also not what Steven was 
>> suggesting, at
>> least as far as I can tell.
>>   
> I agree with you here. Adding an SA rule to tweak the score based on 
> simple things like the sender address is pretty easy to do. If you 
> don't know how to do it, then read 'man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' will 
> tell you most of what you need to do, and a quick look for an envelope 
> rule in /usr/share/spamassassin will give you plenty of examples.
>
> I don't want to waste time and resources on things that SA already 
> does perfectly well.
>
> Jules
>

Jules

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