MCP patching SpamAssassin

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jun 21 13:59:01 IST 2007


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Any chance you could do it for me please? Take a look at the patch 
(linked from www.mailscanner.info/mcp.html).

Randal, Phil wrote:
> Julian,
>
> Is there any chance of you raising a spamassassin bug to get this
> functionality included in the standard release?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK  
>
>   
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>> Of Julian Field
>> Sent: 20 June 2007 18:39
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: MCP patching SpamAssassin
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>> After looking at the source for 3.2.1, I have come up with a 
>> far easier 
>> way of making SpamAssassin search binary attachments as well as just 
>> text and HTML, when doing MCP tests.
>>
>> The new method involves just a single 1-line patch to Util.pm.
>>
>> This will be in the next release, and should be far simpler 
>> to maintain 
>> across future versions, as it works at a much lower level, in 
>> a utility 
>> function for reading the MIME type of an attachment.
>>
>> I would advise anyone using SpamAssassin version 3.2.0 or higher to 
>> switch to the new method when I release it.
>>
>> Jules
>>
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