[Dspam-devel] More patches for dspam.cgi: delivery of false positives from quarantine

[Tod A. S. <san...@ri...>]

Here is another patch for dspam.cgi that deals with the delivery of false positives from the quarantine.  It is a patch on top of the recent quarantine file locking patch I submitted.  It allows for specifying in configure.pl an external command for delivering false positives.  If this command is not defined, the patch has no effect, other than some optional additional logging.

For us, this is a script that first attempts to retrain/deliver with dspam as normal.  But then the script tries to verify if the message was actually delivered, and if not, it will try to deliver the command directly (for instance, with procmail).  This external script is quite site specific.


Background:

If the DSPAM signature of a message cannot be found in the database (most often because it has expired and has been cleaned from the database), the dspam command will exit with a successful status even though it does not deliver the message.


Long ago, we had several unhappy professors after they returned from sabbatical and attempted to deliver old messages in their quarantines.



Tod Sandman
Sr. Systems Administrator
Middleware Development & Integration
Rice University