Well, I don't have good answers for all of these, but I'll cover two of them....
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dan Heller wrote: > I'm new to the list, so I'm not sure if I'm going to be the first or > only one to say so, but... the FAQ is vastly oversimplified and doesn't > address many of the basic questions one might have about how spamassassin > works. what's more, there are many features of the program that are simply > undocumented. It would be nice to see some sort of schematic about what > is done first, order of precedence, side effect of any action on the text > being parsed, and so on. You'll get a sense of this from the following > questions: > When a string matches, is it removed from the search pattern? No. For instance, I have an archived spam with a subject line of: Subject: REDUCE YOUR MORTGAGE PAYMENTS! EGPZPWGV and it triggers SUBJ_HAS_SPACES, PLING and SUBJ_ALL_CAPS (from SA 2.31 rules). > Scanning for attchments: existence of, names, extensions... > I can't seem to look for message with attachments, or specific forms > of attachments, such as .exe, .pif., .scr, all of which are usually > viruses. Well, I suspect the anser would read something like: SpamAssassin is not VirusAssassin, in part because there already exist good virus scanners for email (server and client side) and in part because targetting viruses waters down the mission of SpamAssassin. Perhaps you should consider Amavisd or Procmail Sanitizer for these uses. That said, I believe there is agreement from others that the FAQ needs updating. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/ | System Admin - UT iSchool =----------------------------------+------------------------------- All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.ischool.utexas.edu/~shanew ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
