Request for comments 3

[Julian Field]

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Alex Broens wrote:
> 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 ?
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> Wouldn't that require a shortcircuited SA rule?
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> 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.
Correct. I would have to wait for SA to complete before I get given the 
list of hits. So it can't be used to speed things up, but I figured it 
might be useful to make the processing more adaptable.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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?
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>> SpamAssassin Rule Actions = rulename=>action, rulename=>action, ....
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>> 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?
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>> 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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