That's odd - I've had several cases where I had <RULE_TYPE><TAB><RULE_NAME><SPACE><RULE> and it got completely ignored.
Keith -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: Bigevil and SARE update! If you read only one post this year, it should be this one Interesting. I've entered many rules by hand - mostly blacklist/whitelist stuff, and spaces have never been an issue. In addition, man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf says The "#" character starts a comment, which continues until end of line. Whitespace in the files is not significant, but please note that start- ing a line with whitespace is deprecated, as we reserve its use for multi-line rule definitions, at some point in the future. Man spamassassin reveals no comments on the issue. Am I missing something? Kurt -----Original Message----- From: Hackworth, Keith A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:35 To: Kurt Buff; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: Bigevil and SARE update! If you read only one post this year, it should be this one You're lucky that works. Usually when you cut and paste, depending on the terminal program, all tabs become spaces. SA doesn't like spaces in the rule definitions - it's got to be tabs. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re[2]: Bigevil and SARE update! If you read only one post this year, it should be this one Al and others, I use a more simple-minded approach for updating my rulesets. I am running Postfix/SA on a FreeBSD4.8 box, and am using Putty to ssh into it. Putty has a very nice feature that lets you paste into the window starting at the cursor by simply right-mouse-clicking. Thus, I bring up the web page containing the rules I want to copy, highlight and do a ^c, then right-mouse-click into the waiting vi window. If I'm updating a complete ruleset, highlight the entire page, ^c, rm the rulset, vi the new copy of the ruleset, type 'i' for insert mode, right-mouse-click, save it off, and I'm done. Works like a champ, and avoids any silliness with cr/lf conversion, and save me from doing a lot of typing as well. It's not automated, but seems to work just fine for what I need it to do. Kurt -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Al Danks Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: Bigevil and SARE update! If you read only one post this year, it should be this one Robert Menschel <Robert <at> Menschel.net> writes: > > Hello Al, > > How did you download the file, and then how did you save it to your > system? If you used any editor or word processor that might wrap text, > that could be the cause. > > Another possibility: If you saved the file on a Windows/DOS machine, and > then copied it to a Unix machine without translating for the O/S > difference, that could also cause similar symptoms. First attempt downloaded to Windows PC and copied to Unix. Second attempt, just now, wget http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/biz_market_learn.cf directly from Unix machine. Still get the same illegal hexadecimal ! line 1 when I restart SA 2.63. At this point, since Chris says it's not ready yet I'm waiting until he says it is. Al ***** "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers." 113
