Re: Question regarding meta's

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

Matt Kettler writes:
> Dan wrote:
> > Thanks Matt,
> >
> > That certainly would explain my problem.  The entry is listed near the
> > bottom of this page:
> >
> > http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/resources/how_to/email/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html
> >
> >
> > Checking Google, its the only page in the world saying "meta
> > SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME regular expression."  Its not clear which version
> > this relates to.
> >
> > Back to the drawing board...
> >
> Yeah, I just checked the latest SVN snapshot, it doesn't have this either.
> 
> Looking closer at that page, it also mentions required_hits, but does
> not mention it as deprecated. required_hits became deprecated in SA 3.0.0.
> 
> It also doesn't mention report_safe, which was present in the release of
> SA 2.60
> 
> However it does mention the use of arithmetic meta's, which were new in
> SA 2.50.
> 
> My only guess is that page is built from some kind of SVN build of a
> pre-release version of SA 2.50. They may have been intending to add
> regex support, and then backed it out when it caused problems.

Yeah, we had that in a *long* time ago.  I think we took it out for
2.60; nobody was using it, and it was tricky to support.

--j.