Re: [vps-mail] procmail : about reading info from ASCII files

["Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

anon <sikaspam@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> We have a lot of recipes that look like this in the condition:
> 
> * ^From:.*(name1|name2|name3)
> 
> When these start to get long they get hard to maintain. 

I use scoring to "OR" conditions. The above becomes:

* 1^0 ^From:.*name1
* 1^0 ^From:.*name2
* 1^0 ^From:.*name3

(My "naughty words" block looks like the above (but without the "^From:.*") I
won't post my naughty words (I don't want spammers to get hold of them), but
they take into account "misspellings" etc. (Where I, L and 1 [one] can be used
 interchangeably for i, O and 0 [zero] are used for o, etc., etc., etc.)

> I would really like to see a type of "include" that would read from a file 
> with one 
> entry per line. For obvious reasons, this would make it easy to write 
> code in PHP or any other language to administer such lists.

Using scoring is *almost* like having one entry per line. You just need to
prefix it with "* 1^0".  (I realize that the documentation shows ways of using
scores different from 1^0, but for most of my rule sets, I just use 1^0. [I
won't share the ones that use other heuristics ...])

 
> In the meantime, is there a process-friendly way to replace these 
> (x|y|z) with a read of some kind?

* 1^0 x
* 1^0 y
* 1^0 z

-- 
Bennett Lanford
ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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