On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 13:09 -0500, Bill Cole wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2018, at 18:23, Chris Pollock wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2018-12-09 at 13:06 -0500, Bill Cole wrote:
> > > On 9 Dec 2018, at 12:04, Chris Pollock wrote:
> > > 
> > > > This is probably very trivial and doesn't affect anything
> > > > except
> > > > maybe
> > > > the size of the headers but I have to ask. When looking at the
> > > > headers
> > > > of some ham I noticed - https://pastebin.com/H7euxqVX the two
> > > > rules
> > > > I
> > > > mention above are in 72_active.cf. Is there a reason for the
> > > > number
> > > > of
> > > > times it's listed? Couldn't each subtest be listed just once
> > > > instead
> > > > of
> > > > multiple times?
> > > 
> > > Not with the current documented behavior of the code, given the
> > > way
> > > those sub-rules are designed to work together. The goal is to
> > > identify
> > > messages which use Latin-script 'e' characters but also use many
> > > non-Latin-script characters which look like 'e' but are not. To
> > > make
> > > this determination, the rules require the 'multiple' flag without
> > > a
> > > cap
> > > on thne number of matches which a 'maxhits' parameter would set.
> > 
> > Got it, thanks Bill. I've never noticed this before. I also noticed
> > that according to my daily sa-update output this subtest is
> > apparently
> > new or at least it didn't appear in the output until this past Fri.
> 
> Correct. See the thread with the subject "No longer just embedded =9D
> characters in blackmail emails" here last week for the background.
> 
> > > 
> > > It is not recommended to routinely add the list of matched sub-
> > > rules
> > > to
> > > scanned messages.
> > > 
> > 
> > Any specific reason why? This is just on my home system.
> 
> It's got the potential to be VERY noisy (as you've discovered) while
> not really providing much useful info.  Not a big deal on a small
> system.
> 
I could just go through and comment out this line in my local.cf
add_header all Subtest Ran _SUBTESTS(,)_
but I periodically like to see what's going on.

> 
> Anyway, as of today I've capped those 2 subrules at levels which
> leave ample space to still match the target spam. Should show up in
> tomorrow's update.
Thanks Bill, I'll see how it looks after today's update.

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