This patch contains code from libspamc.c (SpamAssassin?)
> +/* Stolen from libspamc.c, and I'm not sure about license compatibility */
> +static float _locale_safe_string_to_float(char *buf, int siz)
> +{
Here it is in their repo:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/spamc/libspamc.c?view=markup#l929
SpamAssassin uses the Apache license:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/LICENSE?view=markup
I'm not sure about license compatibility here either. Thoughts, anyone?
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015, at 10:49 AM, ellie timoney wrote:
> Hi Vladislav,
>
> Thanks for the patch. I'll try to get it merged this week.
>
> ellie
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 23:19, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote:
> > > 11.09.2015 14:49, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 20:00, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote:
> > > >> 11.09.2015 12:01, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > > >>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 16:48, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote:
> > > >>>> 11.09.2015 03:52, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > > >>>>> sort: spamscore search: spamabove / spambelow
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> These use the X-Spam-score header which is a floating point number
> > > >>>>> with a single decimal place usually, i.e. 5.0, 17.3. spamabove is
> > > >>>>> GE
> > > >>>>> and spambelow is LT.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I'm going to push this back, because it doesn't clash with anything.
> > > >>>>> It's kinda nice to be able to sort by spamscore to quickly put the
> > > >>>>> focus on the most likely to be be wrongly classified messages, and
> > > >>>>> we're going to support that in our interface at some stage.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Bron.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Ah, I have a nice patch for spamtest extension against 2.4.17.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> It connects to spamd itself from lmtpd, checks the message and sets
> > > >>>> additional headers. Sieve integration is done too.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Need to send it here.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> That would be great.
> > > >>
> > > >> Attached. Just found that it inconsistently uses tabs/spaces. I hope
> > > >> that is not an issue at least for initial review.
> > > >
> > > > Initial impressions:
> > > >
> > > > I would rename 's' to 'fd'. Everyone knows what 'fd' does, s could be
> > > > anything,
> > > > and being an int, it's totally un-typesafe.
> > >
> > > It was initially written against newly-released 2.3.8. That time socket
> > > fd was usually named 's' or 'sock'. 's' is shorter ;) Did that change?
> >
> > Fair enough :) I haven't dealt with that area of the code quite so much,
> > more the index and database filehandles.
> >
> > > Yep, that never resulted in lost messages for last N+1 years in quite
> > > busy setups (not as fastmail, but anyways...).
> > >
> > > So, yes, that "works for me" and such change would be really cosmetic.
> > >
> > > I just ported it to 2.4.17 recently without even looking much at the
> > > code (but yes, that is tested on newer setups right from the patch date).
> > >
> > > I can send previous revision (against 2.3.13) as well.
> >
> > No, that's fine. We can work with this.
> >
> > > > I've got a sneaking feeling that your entire spamtest_parse_hosts could
> > > > be
> > > > turned into a tight little piece of code based on strarray_split() -
> > > > but it looks fine.
> > >
> > > No opinion. It was not available in 2.3.x. IMHO spamtest_parse_hosts is
> > > very straight-forward.
> > >
> > > And, that _may_ conflict with the line in TODO list (which I probably
> > > will never do anyways because I have no idea how to make that fair
> > > enough without initial lookups):
> > > * Make load-balancing work if hostname that resolve to multiple A
> > > records is used in "spamtest_spamd_hosts".
> >
> > One interesting possibility (more for spam than virus checking) is to
> > send requests
> > for the same user to the same host always, which would require some form
> > of
> > consistent hashing. We do that with nginx at FastMail for web requests:
> >
> > upstream internalbackend {
> > server web1.nyi.internal:8080;
> > server web2.nyi.internal:8080;
> > server web3.nyi.internal:8080 down;
> > server web4.nyi.internal:8080;
> > server web5.nyi.internal:8080;
> > server web6.nyi.internal:8080;
> > }
> >
> > So it knows web3 is down and hashes elsewhere, but when it comes back up,
> > the
> > same users will move back.
> >
> > We do the same for postfix lmtp delivery with some magic code in a thing
> > called lmtpforwardd,
> > which just listens on localhost and forwards to the correct server based
> > on the list of up spam
> > scan machines.
> >
> > > > All the code looks like it works (which is not a surprise, because it's
> > > > been used).
> > > > My main concerns would be around signal safety in the file IO syscalls.
> > >
> > > Feel free to convert them to prot ones, but I do not feel it is strictly
> > > required.
> >
> > Sure thing :)
> >
> > Bron.
> >
> > --
> > Bron Gondwana
> > br...@fastmail.fm
