On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 17:38, John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Justin Mason wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 17:03, Yet Another Ninja <sa-l...@alexb.ch> wrote: >> >>> SARE had a nice system where you could submit a rule via email and got >>> the masscheck results via email. Sadly all the boxes which did this are >>> dead. >> >> actually, I _did_ come up with one of those, but nobody used it :( >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/PreflightByMail > > Did you announce it to the users list?
nope -- on the dev list. A couple of SARE folks responded saying "cool!" though. >> btw, don't bother trying it now -- I turned it off again after it was >> never used. > > Ooo. Can it be resurrected? > > But this is only part of the problem. How difficult is it for third parties > to submit rules for review and inclusion in the base ruleset without > necessarily joining the dev group? Is posting the proposed rule to bugzilla > sufficient? getting the rule into the "rulesrc" area is all that's needed. it gets auto-promoted based on linting ok, getting good performance etc.... it's a hell of a lot easier to use SVN these days though. Would it really be impossible to do it that way? that's as simple as svn up edit rulesrc/sandbox/jm/20_whatever.cf svn commit rulesrc/sandbox/jm/20_whatever.cf and wait ;) --j.
