On 2011-07-12 15:21, Jezz wrote:
Hi folks,
I've been getting a bit of spam lately that is slipping easily past my
SpamAssassin - mostly "work from home" stuff that is just plain text and
a single URL which uses a URL shortening service, and it doesn't hit on
much.
I've tried to add the DecodeShortURLs plugin (from
http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.pm and
http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.cf) which I think/hope will
help a lot with detecting the spammy URLs.
However, when I tried to impliment this plugin, I discovered that it
requires the Sys::Syslog module, and I don't have that module included
on my system. The reason is that I'm running SpamAssassin on Windows, as
part of the Windows-based MDaemon mail server. And I guess the MDaemon
developers didn't include the Syslog module as it's obviously not a
required module for Windows usage (at least not with their
implimentation of SpamAssassin).
So my question is this: is there any way I can get the DecodeShortURLs
plugin working without the Syslog module requirement? Eg. can I get this
plugin to only view Syslog as an optional and not mandatory
prerequisite? I certainly don't need the Syslog functionality of this
plugin, and the plugin itself allows me to "turn off" Syslog logging by
adding "url_shortener_syslog 0" to the .cf file. Yet it seems to still
require the Syslog module in order to work (otherwise I get errors when
I run a lint check).
Any suggestions??
whathappens if you comment out those lines
#url_shortener_log /tmp/DecodeShortURLs.txt
#url_shortener_cache /tmp/DecodeShortURLs.sq3
#url_shortener_syslog 1
