> Hi folks, > I'm a newbie to SA and have looked at a few tutorials on writing > custom rules, but they all seem to be too simple for what I want to do. > That, or I'm not smart enough to figure it out on my own. What I'm > needing is some guidance on how to write a custom rule that looks at the > creation time in the header, and if its between 8 PM to 7 AM.... score > it appropriately. I know that this might make some of you cringe at the > thought of it, but I would say that 95% - 99% of all of ham is sent > between 8 AM to 6 PM. The only this that really comes through later > than that may be some valid newsletters that really don't make a > difference. And besides, I'm not talking about scoring it at 999.000, > just add maybe .8 or even 1.000. I think it would be a handy little > rule if I had the brains to figure it out. Here is the header tag that > I need to check, "Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:17:17 -0400" and I've looked > at the date rules built into SA but I can't see how I could possibly > create a rule with regex to do what I want. Well... maybe..... let me > think on it, if anyone has any ideas, please let me know!
How about creating two configuration files, each with a different threshold. Then use cron to switch which file is used at 8am and 6pm. Cheers, Peter Smith