[Bug 6233] New: What values are valid/recommended for SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME?

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https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6233

           Summary: What values are valid/recommended for
                    SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME?
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Documentation
        AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
        ReportedBy: antispam@khopis.com


(Filed as a documentation bug, but perhaps better suited elsewhere...)

I had thought SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME had to match /^(__)?[A-Z][A-Z_0-9]+$/ but
there is a small number of rules that do not ... namely, rules in
20_freemail.cf (subrules only), 20_ratware.cf (subrules starting with __0),
sandboxes emailed/00_FVGT_File001.cf (trailing lowercases), hege/20_hk.cf,
hege/20_hk_dev.cf, and jm/80_sane.cf (trailing hashes using lowercase), plus
many SARE rules and 72_active.cf has a hit (__FB_BCs) in
updates.spamassassin.org (for 3.2.5) but not in subversion.

There does not appear to be a document stating what these can legally be nor
are there suggestions aside from those pertaining to prefixing custom rules at
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules#Rule_name_suggestions

http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html
states that a description is best kept under 50 characters, but it never
actually defines anything about what can and cannot be included in descriptions
and SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME.

Can symbolic test names be of any length and include any nonspace characters? 
I'm doubting it...

Here's how I got a list as sorted by filename:

----
cd /path/to/spamassassin/svn/trunk

find * -name '*.cf' |xargs grep . |perl -ne 'if
(/^(\S+):\s*(?:lang\s+\S+\s+)?(?:describe|score|tflags|priority|test|header|full|(?:raw)?body|meta|uri)\s+/)
{ my $file=$1; s///; s/\s.*//; print "$file: $_" unless
/^(?:__)?[A-Z][A-Z_0-9]{1,50}$/; }' |sort |uniq

cd /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005; !!
----


(It's amazing how much I've learned just by writing a syntax file for SA
configs... see http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2617 ... which I
might want to check into svn once I get write access.)

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[Bug 6233] What values are valid/recommended for SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME?

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https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6233

Adam Katz <an...@khopis.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|normal                      |minor

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