On 7/15/2015 6:41 PM, a...@satester.com wrote:
I started writing SA rules about a year ago. Although I am new to this
list, I have been lurking for quite a while. I would like to thank
Kevin McGrail and others for providing rules and tips that inspires me
to write my own custom rules.
Today I wrote a little tool that helps me test my SA rules. I was
using Rubular.com to check one pattern at a time which was very
tedious. With my new tool, I can paste my entire rule.cf file (or just
a one rule) and check against any test string to see which rules hit.
(operates like a multi-line version of Rubular)
I hope some of you find this tool useful. I wrote it because I
couldn't find another one like it in google. If there is something
better at testing SA rules like this, please let me know so I don't
waste any further development efforts. If it is useful, ideas and
suggestions will be heartily appreciated.
www.satester.com
It's a one page site created in one day, so it doesn't look like much
right now. We might style it better later on. There is no database and
we save nothing entered into the site. It ignores meta, score, and
describe at this time (any line without regex in it) Simply paste in a
rule and enter some sample text and it automatically highlights the hits.
I notice a couple of bugs already. I've seen an odd rule hit on one of
our span tags used for highlighting sample results. Also I need to
add mimeheader to the list of lines that contain regex to be checked
(along with header, body, rawbody, etc.)
Excellent idea Allen. I'm sure this will help a lot of people.
You might find the regression_tests.cf in the trunk rules/ dir
interesting. It's a way of giving strings you want to hit/not-hit on
rules and see if it properly hits/doesn't hit as you expect.
I also use mutt and a few macros such as one that run spamassassin -t
2>&1 with a prompt for a keyword. Helpful for debugging.
Regards,
KAM
