Request for comments 3

[Alex Broens]

On 7/22/2007 5:45 PM, UxBoD wrote:
> That sounds pretty cool Jules. Would these rules take priority over the SA rules ? So that based on a particular rule you could say quarantine straight away without any further processing ?

Wouldn't that require a shortcircuited SA rule?

I can imagine MS will have to wait till SA spits out its results before 
it can find the SA hit to apply its rule.



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> From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: 22 July 2007 16:13:34 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: Re: Request for comments 3
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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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>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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> Jules
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