Fun with my own spamassassin filter: slow reacting?

[Mauricio Tavares]

Randal, Phil wrote:
> The old score was being cached in MailScanner's spamassassin results
> cache.
> 
	Aha. Is there a way to flush it, so it is forced to read the new values in?

> Cheers,
> 
> Phil 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
> Mauricio Tavares
> Sent: 01 September 2009 14:18
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Fun with my own spamassassin filter: slow reacting?
> 
> 
> 	Trying to write a filter that would look for a header beginning
> with a specific text and give me a score based on that. So, after
> reading http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules I edit
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf and add the following:
> 
> header LOCAL_TEST Test-Header =~ /Strange Pork/ score LOCAL_TEST  -1.000
> 
> then reload MailScanner and send a test email with that header. I check
> the header and it seems to have found the header and graded it as it
> should:
> 
> not spam, SpamAssassin (cached, score=1.694,	required 4.7,
> BASE64_LENGTH_79_INF 1.50, BAYES_05 -1.11,	FH_HELO_ENDS_DOT 2.31,
> LOCAL_TEST -1.00)
> 
> So, just for the fun of it, I decrease the score to -3, reload
> MailScanner, and send the test email. I am still getting -1 as the score
> for LOCAL_TEST. I try restarting it and get the same results.
> 
> Today, I try it again, not having touched the mail server since that
> last attempt. Now it properly reports the new score for LOCAL_TEST:
> 
> not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.306,	required 4.7,
> BASE64_LENGTH_79_INF 1.50, BAYES_05 -1.11,	FH_HELO_ENDS_DOT 2.31,
> LOCAL_TEST -3.00)
> 
> Is it me who missed some step here or it is just slow to update itself?
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