On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:06:16 -0800, Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 07:44 AM 1/15/2007, you wrote: >>Thanks, I have now done this, and it is working fine. However i >>think it is still a bug for it to give these problems when a rule is >>miswritten in this way. > >You make a mistake in a rule, and you don't lint it, and you get an >error, and that's a bug? > >I'm sorry, but that's kind of like buying a plane, incorrectly >setting the altimeter (which among other things tells you where the >ground is), then flying the plane straight into the ground and saying >it's the planes fault. For what it's worth, I think the comment about a cascade failure on a single error has merit. Ideally if a rule did contain an error SA would 'ignore' that rule and carry on to the next. However, how you'd deal with meta rules I have no clue, I suspect it's a very large can of worms or it would probably have been addressed by now. As is written in many of the wiki pages and the manual --lint, --lint & --lint again. Even the 'pros' make typo's and have been bitten by not --lint'ing. It's all too easy to mistype. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules pretty much says it all. Nigel
