Trying to get MCP working

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 30 October 2009 11:44, Glenn Steen wrote:

> 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...!
> >
> > 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...

> 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.

Okay, I've looked into this a bit further, and I have the following puzzles / 
questions:

1. You say "MCP should work just fine, but it is inefficient..." - I 
understand this, and I'd still like to be able to debug why I cannot get MCP 
working on this system.

Can anyone help me work out why MCP doesn't match any of the tests I've 
created - what debugging can I do?  (I tried setting "Debug SpamAssassin = 
yes" but this gave me no extra output at all).

2. I think I've understood the SA Rule Actions (although I've not been able to 
find any meaningful examples...), and I don't see how to do the following 
things, which I do know how to do with MCP:

 - modify the subject line to indicate potentially bad content
 - bounce a message back to the sender to say their message has been blocked

Obviously I'd only want to do the first if I deliver the message, and the 
second if I don't, but it's not my choice which the end user of the system is 
going to want done - it may be both, based on two lists of words.

Thanks for any help (from anyone, not necessarily just Glenn).


Antony.

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