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Eric A. Hall writes: > On 6/15/2005 3:20 PM, Justin Mason wrote: > > > Eric -- you may have to patch the AutoWhitelist class to throw those > > numbers into variables hanging off the PerMsgStatus object. Then the > > plugin can access those values safely. > > > > I'd be +1 on applying a patch that simply sets a variable or two on the > > PerMsgStatus object as the AWL logic is run, that wouldn't have any > > noticeable effect during normal use (and it seems handy in general). > > I don't disagree that it would be handy in general, but I'm not sure it's > useful strategy for this plugin given some of the synchronization issues > at play here. In particular, AWL runs after all of the eval rules, and > that is too late in the cycle for my rule to update the message. > > This is kind of tricky. On the one hand, the plugin needs to run after all > of the other eval tests so that it can get the current spam score. But if > it is going to assign a booster score to the message (+1.0 for being > first-time spam from unknown source, and getting the outcome recorded in > the appropriate header field), then it also needs to run before the end of > the message processing so that SA is still in a position to modify the > score (and the underlying message) appropriately. This means it has to be > pretty much the last rule to run, which is proving to be pretty > challenging in its own right. > > On top of that it also has to pull data from the AWL database, but without > allowing AWL to actually run against the message (it would be too late for > my eval rule to update the message at that point). Therefore, the easiest > way for me to find out if the message has been seen by AWL is to just ask > AWL directly, using the exposed method (but that doesn't seem to be > working, for reasons unknown). > > So I agree with you as to general utility, but it won't really help with > this plugin. I need to get the AWL method figured out, and I need to get > the timing factors figured out (eg, how do I make the rule be last). I'm > stuck on both of those, although I'll readily admit that I'm not really > trying very hard either, since I've got other stuff to work on. have you tried giving your rule a higher "priority" than AWL? AWL is just another rule. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFCsgcxMJF5cimLx9ARAv3YAJ0WDCUqs1LpBrTL1xO/CeqDpvkq1gCgn4VA H2ssj8dv/hGlEgkI2eHwmYo= =5EdX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
