Here's my take on why I endorse John's request. I understand Dan's suggestion and agree with its intent, I just don't want to raise my log level yet. I'm a MID loglevel person, and happy to be there otherwise.
When Declude calls my IPFILE test and nabs a message for failing, the logfile line includes the comment from the line in my IPFILE that failed. When Declude calls my FROMFILE test and nabs the message for failing, the logfile line includes the comment from the line in my FROMFILE that failed. My IPFILE has comments which identify the presumed domain of the IP address, and my FROMFILE has other comments that are similarly relevant and which remind me why I blacklisted them. When Declude runs one of my filter tests and nabs a message for failing, the logfile tells which line in the filter caused the match. [Caused isn't the right word, but work with me here.] So then, if I'm curious, I open the filter file in Notepad and manually count the lines until I find the one that matched, and then I can take corrective action if it's called for. I do this frequently, and I'm saddened that John's suggestion never occurred to me previously. <rant> And before someone chimes in and tells me that I should be using a better text editor that contains automatic line counting, let me say THAT'S NOT THE POINT. The point is trying to bring Declude's admittedly awesome capabilities into balance. </rant> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Patnode Sent: Friday, 13 December 2002 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Comments in filters Put your log level to HIGH and it shows each phrase that caught something. While its not intuitive to see which of multiple tests a given phrase belongs to, because a given email can fail multiple tests in the same package, you actually get more info. Dan On Friday, December 13, 2002 12:38, John Tolmachoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Or, can the headers or log show what the filter was instead of a test line >>>number? Say, add a comment after the line. >>> >>>Example: >>>SUBJECT 5 CONTAINS FREE "Subject contains free." >> >>No, that is not possible. > >Feature request! :)) That could be useful to see in the logs why it was >caught instead of just the line number. > >John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA >IT Manager, Network Engineer >RelianceSoft, Inc. >Fullerton, CA 92835 >www.reliancesoft.com > > > > >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus >(http://www.declude.com)] > >--- >This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
