add action to watermarking

Hoger Nöfer holger-lists at noefer.org
Tue Feb 24 22:07:18 GMT 2009


Eric Hoeve schrieb:
> Glenn Steen said the following, On 2/24/2009 2:59 AM:
>> 2009/2/23 Eric Hoeve <ebhoeve-ms at ehoeve.com>:
>>  
>>> First off I want to say that MailScanner is a great piece of
>>> software that
>>> has helped me tremendously.
>>>
>>> Background: I have Spam and High Scoring Spam setup to deliver with a
>>> special header that allows the MUA know it should drop the message
>>> in the
>>> spam bucket.
>>>
>>> Now I am getting a ton of 'backscatter' from spammer(s) spoofing one
>>> of our
>>> users email address to send spam. Now they get tons of 'bounce'
>>> messages and
>>> fillingup their mailbox (spam bucket) because I am using the watermark
>>> feature. Would their be a way to make it so I could just delete all
>>> email
>>> that bounces to a specific user and also failing the watermark test.
>>> I see
>>> my current choices are 'spam', 'high scoring spam', etc but no
>>> delete/drop
>>> option. It would be nice if I could do something like this in 'rules'.
>>>
>>> Current MS Version is: 4.73.4.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>> Eric Hoeve
>>>     
>>
>> Why not delete the High Scoring Spam and set it to that?
>>
>> Cheers
>>   
> Thanks for the prompt relies.
>
> I had kind of thought about doing it that way.However, I was looking
> at the code for the watermark in
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm
>
> Unfortunately I do not have a spare system hanging around where I can
> test these code changes, but what if I add the following code:
>
> --- MailScanner/Message.bak 2009-02-24 12:50:31.000000000 -0600
> +++ MailScanner/Message.pm  2009-02-24 13:02:05.000000000 -0600
> @@ -569,6 +569,12 @@
>     #print STDERR "mshmacnull = $mshmacnull\n";
>     # This can be "none", "spam" or "high-scoring spam"
>     #$mshmacnull =~ s/[^a-z]//g;
> +    if ($mshmacnull =~ /delete/) {
> +      $this->{deleted} = 1;
> +      $this->{dontdeliver} = 1;
> +      MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Message %s from %s has no (or
> invalid) watermark or sender address delete message", $this->{id},
> $this->{clientip}) if $LogSpam;;
> +      return 1;
> +    }
>     if ($mshmacnull =~ /high/) {
>       my $highscore =
> MailScanner::Config::Value('highspamassassinscore', $this);
>       $this->{isspam} = 1;
>
> ---------- End of Code --------------------------------------------
>
> Would that mark the message as 'deleted' and thus delete the message???
> Then I could just use 'Treat Invalid Watermarks With No Sender as Spam
> = delete'.
>
> If that would work maybe you could add that code snippet to the next
> release of MailScanner.
>
> This was just a thought. Otherwise I will probably just end use what
> Glenn or Gareth mentioned.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric
>
Hi Eric,

deleteing invalid watermarks would be a very nice feature. I hope Julian
will include this into the next
MailScanner version if the code works.
On thursday I can test the code on a test server, is that an option?

Best regards,
Holger


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