Need help with rule set - Bother! :(

[Julian Field]

I've written it all, and I've just realised the reason the last bug is 
there is because I am totally screwed.
I do the spam scanning before the virus scanning.
So by the time I've got the virus scanner reports about spam, it is 
*way* too late to do anything with them.

The only solution is to turn it all around and do the virus scanning 
first, which is *far* less efficient as you'll end up virus scanning the 
90% of your mail that is actually spam anyway. And all the overheads in 
data structures that have to be generated in order for the scanning to 
work. And all the attachment extraction. And everything else.

Damn and botherations!

Anyone got any great ideas?

I can detect all the "spam-virus" output and put it in a separate 
header, but I can't then do anything with it except ignore it or just 
put it in a useless header in the output message.

Your thoughts please.

On 30/07/2009 11:01, Julian Field wrote:
> I wasn't thinking of anything quite so complicated as that.
> Maybe a single score for all defined spam reports from the virus 
> scanners?
> I would rather keep it simple so people can actually use it, than have 
> something very clever and complex that no-one ever quite understands 
> or can work out how to use (apart from the 0.1% who are wizards).
>
> Jules.
>
> On 30/07/2009 10:30, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>> Here is the scoremap you would use in Amavis aswell :-
>>
>> @virus_name_to_spam_score_maps =
>>    (new_RE(  # the order matters!
>>      [ qr'^Phishing\.'                                             
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^(Email|HTML)\.Phishing\.(?!.*Sanesecurity)'             
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^Sanesecurity\.(Malware|Rogue|Trojan)\.' =>  undef ],# keep 
>> as infected
>>      [ qr'^Sanesecurity(\.[^., ]*)*\.'                             
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^Sanesecurity_PhishBar_'                                 
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^Email\.Spam\.Bounce(\.[^., ]*)*\.Sanesecurity\.'        
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^(MSRBL-Images\b|MSRBL-SPAM\.)'                          
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^VX\.Honeypot-SecuriteInfo\.com\.Joke'                   
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^VX\.not-virus_(Hoax|Joke)\..*-SecuriteInfo\.com(\.|\z)' 
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'^Email\.Spam.*-SecuriteInfo\.com(\.|\z)'                 
>> =>  0   ],
>>      [ qr'-SecuriteInfo\.com(\.|\z)'         =>  undef ],  # keep as 
>> infected
>>      [ qr'^MBL_'                             =>  undef ],  # keep as 
>> infected
>>    ));
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>
> Jules
>

Jules

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