Non Spam actions problem

[Søren Dam]

2010/11/25 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

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> On 25/11/2010 14:47, Søren Dam wrote:
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>> 2010/11/25 Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org <mailto:
>> hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>>
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>>    On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:20:05 +0100, Søren Dam <post at damschott.dk
>>    <mailto:post at damschott.dk>> wrote:
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>>     When I did that test you proposed, Mailscanner couldn't read the
>>>    rules file. Then I changed the file name from
>>>    "Non.SpamAction.*Rules*" to "Non.SpamAction.*rules" *That helped!
>>>    This is properly common knowledge if you read the Mailscanner
>>>    book, which i will buy now..;-)
>>>    /Soeren
>>>
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>>    Sounds more like common unix knowledge. Things are case sensetive
>>    untill proven otherwise.
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>>    Hugo.
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>> No..thats NOT common UNIX knowledge..
>> I'm fully aware of case sensitivity..
>> I named the entry in the Mailscanner.conf the EXACT same way as the .rules
>> file. But it does simply not work if you name a something.rules file
>> something.Rules. Try it out!
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>> That is NOT normal i would say..
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> MailScanner uses a lot of heuristics to work out what you mean by what you
> put in the MailScanner.conf file. There is no defined syntax, it's just not
> that simple.
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> If I had made it easy for me, all you guys would have to put explanatory
> things all over the place so my code could easily see what you meant.
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> I made it easy for you, not for me; so the parser is very much
> heuristics-based, and so does tend to make a few assumptions to start with.
> And yes, one of those is that rules filenames end in ".rules" usually. It
> doesn't enforce that everywhere by any means, but it does make that
> assumption occasionally.
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> I'll change the code to allow .Rules as well as .rules to keep you happy,
> that shouldn't break anything too major.
>
> Jules.
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> Hey, You wrote some fantastic software here, and my users and me are
grateful to use it. I worked for many years with Amavisd-new, and I think
you are right, Mailscanner is easy and intutitive.  I just replied to the
statement that I don't know my UNIX. A bit harsh when you, like me, have
worked with UNIX professionally for 10 years.

 /Soeren

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