Re: Creating a custom tag via a plugin

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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I'm pretty sure there's a bugzilla bug open about this... I can't find it
though.   Could you open a bug at http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/
to request it?

- --j.

Brian Keifer writes:
> I'm using SpamAssassin 3.0 RC5 to tag messages according to per-user
> preferences specified in an SQL database.  Users have the ability to
> modify their settings in the database via a web-based application
> (Sam, part of the Horde project).  One of the settings is
> required_hits.  If the message gets tagged as spam, a maildrop script
> delivers the message to the user's "SPAM" mailbox.  If it's not spam,
> it gets delivered normally.
> 
> I'd like to add a second value, specified by the user and stored in
> the same table as all of the other SA prefs.  This would be a second,
> higher, score that I'd like to have inserted as a second header into
> each message marked as spam.  Maildrop would then compare the value of
> this new header to the number of hits the message got.  If the number
> of hits is greater than this second threshold, the maildrop script
> will delete the message without delivering it.  I'd envisioned the
> second header appearing something like this:
> 
> X-Spam-Delete: 9.3
> 
> In this situation, any messages that got a score of 9.3 or greater
> would never make it to the user's mailbox.
> 
> I've found the add_header option but naturally none of the _TAGS_
> reference my custom value.  What I'd like to know is if there's a way
> to create an additional tag via a SA 3.0 plugin.  Failing that, is
> there a way to take an arbitrary value from SA's config table and
> inject it into a header?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Brian
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Re: Creating a custom tag via a plugin

[Michael Parker <pa...@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:35:34AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure there's a bugzilla bug open about this... I can't find it
> though.   Could you open a bug at http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/
> to request it?
> 

Turns out it's easy enough to do, but it might be cool to add a hook
that gets called in _get_tag and passes in the %tags hash so you can
stick things in there.  Or something similar.

Michael