Trying to get MCP working

[Glenn Steen]

... Meant to say: ... rule hit thing first ...

2009/10/30, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>:
> Sorry to be a bit terse, tapping mails on my Aino is a bit of a pain.
> MCP should work just fine, but it is inefficient since it requires
> another instance of SA.
> If Julian had thought of the rule hit thing, I don't think he'd done
> MCP at all.;-)
> It is the future, so why not move on to that? Once you've switched,
> you'll not look back:-D.
>
> 2009/10/30, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at mailscanner.open.source.it>:
>> On Friday 30 October 2009 10:10, Glenn Steen wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/10/29, Antony Stone wrote:
>>> > Hi.
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to get Message Content Protection working and failing
>>> > miserably :(
>>> >
>>> > I'm using Debian Lenny, with MailScanner 4.74.16 installed from
>>> > backports, SpamAssassin 3.2.5, and Exim 4.69 as the MTA.
>>>
>>> Don't use MCP. Use SA rule hit actions instead. If your version lack
>>> that, then upgrade to one that has it...!
>>> Cheers
>>
>> 4.74.16 does have that feature, yes, however it also has the MCP feature
>> (which I've used in the past with older releases of MailScanner, and feel
>> that I understand better).  Are you saying that MCP no longer works?
>>
>> In the config file they appear to be presented as two ways of achieving
>> similar things, but there's nothing to suggest that if I choose to use
>> MCP,
>> it simply won't work...
>>
>> Can you point me at an example of how to use the SA rule hit actions, if
>> that's the preferred (ie: working) way of doing things now?
>>
>> For clarity, the specific thing I need to do is have a list of banned
>> words,
>> which if any of them appear in the body or subject of an email, causes
>> the
>> email to be flagged as 'unacceptable', quarantined, and a message report
>> sent
>> back to the sender saying "your mail had unacceptable content and was not
>> delivered".
>>
>> I've created the list of words as a pair of SA rules (one for the body,
>> one
>> for the subject), and I know how I should use these if MCP worked; please
>> can
>> you point me at an example which shows me how I should use them with SA
>> rule
>> hit actions instead?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the advice (perhaps the config file / documentation for MCP
>> should
>> be updated to reflect this?),
>>
>>
>> Antony
>>
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