Running a CustomAction on High Scoring Spam

[Julian Field]

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Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a perl script I would like to run on each High
> Scoring Spam that is detected by MailScanner.
>
> The current default behaviour for my
> high.scoring.spam.actions.rules file is:
>
> FromOrTo:       default                         delete
> store-spam header "X-Spam-Status: Yes"
>
> The perl script simply takes stdout piped into it, so
> I just need to do:
>
> # cat spam.eml | spam.pl
>
> for the script to work.
>
> What I'm hoping I can do is use the FromOrTo line
> above to call a CustomAction (if that is the right way
> to do this)
You can't have a Custom Function as the right-hand side value in a rule 
set. The Custom Function has to provide the result for the setting, so 
you would just have
High-Scoring Spam Actions = &MyCustomFunction
and your subroutine MyCustomFunction would return the value listing the 
actions to take for this message.
>  which will "cat" the spam email into my
> perl script.
>   
It is passed the message as an object. Take a look at the examples that 
are there already.
> I currently run the script nightly on the entire high
> scoring "spam" directory and I'd like to make that a
> little more real-time.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Michael.
>
>
>
>       Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address.
> www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail
>
>
>   

Jules

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