What are the skills required to take on maintenance?
I have done a bit of C and perl coding and I've used dspam in the past. I would
like to use it again. Off course, I really never tried to grasp a code base as
big s dspam... But somehow, I feel tempted. And I was really happy when I used
it years ago. It is really a shame it came to this point...
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From: dspam-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 03:00:13
To: <dspam-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Reply-To: dspam-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Dspam-devel] TrainPristine insufficient explanation in conf
comments and debug logging
Le 2014-11-21 17:03, dspam-devel@lists.sourceforge.net a écrit :
> src/dspam.conf.in:
> # TrainPristine: for systems where the original message remains
> server side
> # and can therefore be presented in pristine format for retraining.
> This option
> # will cause DSPAM to cease all writing of signatures and DSPAM
> headers to the
> # message, and deliver the message in as pristine format as possible.
> This mode
> # REQUIRES that the original message in its pristine format (as of
> delivery)
> # be presented for retraining, as in the case of webmail, imap, or
> other
> # applications where the message is actually kept server-side during
> reading,
> # and is preserved. DO NOT use this switch unless the original
> message can be
> # presented for retraining with the ORIGINAL HEADERS and NO
> MODIFICATIONS.
> #
> # NOTE: You can't use this setting with dspam_trian; if you're going
> to use it,
> # wait until after you train any corpora.
> #
> #TrainPristine on
>
> This option caused me some significant headaches recently. My
> travails
> are partially documented on the dspam-user mailing list. I come to
> you, dspam-devel, to request that the documentation here be improved.
> In particular, the note in these comments mentions dspam_train, but
> it
> does not mention that using this option will also break
> reclassification through the web frontend along with any other tools
> that try to use `dspam --signature=...`
Indeed. It could be a bit more exhaustive.
>
> Additionally...
>
> src/dspam.c:
> LOGDEBUG ("saving signature as %s", ATX->signature);
>
> if (CTX->classification == DSR_NONE && CTX->training_mode !=
> DST_NOTRAIN)
> {
> if (!ATX->train_pristine) {
> int x = _ds_set_signature (CTX, CTX->signature,
> ATX->signature);
> if (x) {
> LOG(LOG_WARNING, "_ds_set_signature() failed with error
> %d", x);
> }
> }
> }
>
> The LOGDEBUG message here is very misleading since the signature
> doesn't actually get saved all the time. Those three conditions can
> prevent saving of the signature. There should probably be two
> separate
> LOGDEBUG here, the second one inside the conditionals.
True again.
>
> Would the sourceforge issue tracker, or a submitted patchset, be an
> appropriate place to pursue this conversation?
There is nobody maintaining dspam anymore, so nobody to merge, less
write, a patch. But if you feel like taking on the maintainance
altogether then please be my guest, you'd make many people happy.
Best regards,
Thomas
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