Hello Randy,

Sorry, I was unaware this was your filter, and didn't know that all the
functionality it provides would be lost with my suggestion of removal of the
offending filter generating the spam.log file entry from Bill that I glanced
at.  I'm not running TF, so I wasn't all familiar with it.

Still, I would say to Bill that the log line entries here for TF are
formatted different enough from other IMS filters that AVP will fail in
parsing it.  The trashbin viewer functionality in AVP won't work at present
with such entries in the log.  It will halt processing upon encountering a
parse error on an offending line.

If there is presently a way in TF to log entries to a separate file, this
would restore this functionality.  AVP logs to spam.log in the standard
format, and provides more detailed information in a separate log file
(AVP.LOG) that it maintains.

If Randy made TF's entries conform to what the other spam.log entries look
like, then the information would be presented nicely in the AVP trash bin
viewer interface.  

Otherwise, to put it simply, TF isn't compatible with the trashbin viewer
feature in AVP.

Regards,

-- Eric





-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Randy Brukardt
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Error with Trash bin in AVP

Zaxalon Webmaster writes:

> I suspect some plugin is creating spam log entries (in
> c:\install\mfilter\spam.log) that AVP is unable to parse; perhaps because
> its not a filter that I'd tested it with that has some unusual format..
>
> >>19-09-2006 21:13:25.05 - .\B0000426383.MSG trashed, HTML
> automatic server
> >>access detected (img)
>
> This looks like is may well be the culprit.  Note how the date format is
> different from other entries in the same log.  What filter is doing this?

It's Trash Finder (I recognize the filtering reason). I think it is quite
unlikely that this is the problem. as TF's Spam log entries have not changed
in years. Moreover, I was quite careful to match the column layout so that
readers like Spameye wouldn't break. I also know that a number of users use
TF with the AVP message viewer, so unless this was broken by a new version
of AVP, this isn't the problem.

> If you are looking to filter by text anywhere in the body, you may want to
> dump this filter, and just add the text to the mfilter file,
> "\INSTALL\MFILTER\FILTERI.DAT", in quotes, to the same end.

Huh? You have to use Antibanner to filter in the body; SCSMFilter only
filters in the message headers. Besides, TF Classic also decodes encoded
text, compresses out blanks, and normalizes case: it's nowhere near a pure
text filter. (And, of course, TF Pro also filters on domains, IPs, does SPF
checks, and much more).

In any case, running a mail server without a good spam filter is foolhardy,
and SCSMFilter alone won't cut it. If he's using TF, he probably needs it.

                 Randy.

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