Locating the Source of a Hit in the Message Content

[David <si...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I'm new to SpamAssassin, and I've been running some tests.

I've been using the get_report() method to get a report of the rules that were 
triggered by a message.

Is there a method that can identify where in the content the rule was 
triggered (e.g. a line number, or a regular expression with which I can locate 
it, or ?)

Thanks!

Re: Locating the Source of a Hit in the Message Content

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 05:56 PM 5/26/2005, David wrote:
>I'm new to SpamAssassin, and I've been running some tests.
>
>I've been using the get_report() method to get a report of the rules that 
>were
>triggered by a message.
>
>Is there a method that can identify where in the content the rule was
>triggered (e.g. a line number, or a regular expression with which I can 
>locate
>it, or ?)

No. Sa doesn't keep track of that in the general case, although if you want 
you can do one of two things:

1) run spamassassin with "-D rulesrun=255" which debugs all the rule running.

2) If you're really perplexed look at the rule that matched (grep RULE_NAME 
/usr/share/spamassassin/*).  Most SA rules are regexes and you can apply 
the regex from the rule directly to the message.