This is what I was wondering. We don't want to have to run a computationally-expensive body rule unless we need to. No choice though, I guess. Thanks for your help!
> -----Original Message----- > From: John Hardin [mailto:jhar...@impsec.org] > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 1:20 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: "Chain" rules? > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Andrew Talbot wrote: > > > Is there a way to "chain" rules together such that one rule will only > > fire if another is hit? > > > > Specifically, we have a client that is getting hit with a bunch of > > messages that are just links, but the links contain sex words. We want > > to do a body scan for a list of sex words if and only if the "body contains > only a link" > > rule we have is triggered. > > > > I tried to get this to work with meta rules but it seems like it won't > > do it. Is there currently a way to do this sort of conditional check? > > Unfortunately you can't control whether or not a rule is *executed*, you can > only control whether or not it contributes to the message's overall score. > > -- > John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org > key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Look at the people at the top of both efforts. Linus Torvalds is a > university graduate with a CS degree. Bill Gates is a university > dropout who bragged about dumpster-diving and using other peoples' > garbage code as the basis for his code. Maybe that has something to > do with the difference in quality/security between Linux and > Windows. -- anytwofiveelevenis on Y! SCOX > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 10 days until the 237th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
