Re: [Exim] Re: Comments re: exiscan-4.10-15

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Author: Larry Rosenman
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To: Tom Kistner
CC: Nicholas Blackaby, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Comments re: exiscan-4.10-15
Tom,
Any suggestions on my questions about McAfee's UVSCAN (3 different
possible lines of output)?



On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 08:52, Tom Kistner wrote:
> Nicholas Blackaby wrote:
>
> > It appears that you have misspelt "threshold" (the term "treshold"
> > occurs everywhere within the documentation and actual code).
> > However, correcting this could be inconvenient for users who have
> > already used the misspelt "treshold" in their Exim configuration files!
>
> Sigh :) This was waiting to happen sooner or later. English is not my first
> language. I should have looked that one up. I'll leave the misspelling in for
> now, since it would really force everyone to edit their configs the next time,
> too (I already had a major config change in 4.10-12).
>
> > In the "doc/exiscan-readme.txt" file near line 281, you give an
> > example:
> >
> >              exiscan_scanner_regexp_trigger = found in

> >
> > in which it appears you have accidentally forgotten the "_av_" in the
> > option's name.
>
> Fixed, thanks.
>
> > Currently, when exiscan_spamd_condition = 1, a "X-Spam-Score"
> > header is added and this works very well. I was wondering if it would
> > be possible for exiscan to add other X-Spam- header lines similar to
> > the ones added by the spamassassin program. In particular a
> > header line indicating which tests had been successful would be
> > good.
>
> I'll look into this. The spamd report is multiline. I don't like "parsing" it
> too much, so I'll probably end up putting it into a multiline header in its
> original form.
>
> > Also, would it be possible for exiscan to change the subject of
> > messages suspected of being SPAM (a configurable option)? I
> > suspect that their are some mail clients which are unable to filter
> > mail based on information placed in non-standard headers?
>
> Yes, that may go in too. I use Mozilla Mail which can filter on custom headers
> fine. I just checked out Outlook and it does not seem to be able to do so :)
>
> I'll probably wait a few weeks before making further feature additions. I want
> to let the code "settle down" a bit and see it there are any more bugs, since I
> rewrote most of the patch with -12.
>
> regards,
>
> /tom
>
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