Sandy, Good points. However, some may prefer just to add a test or two rather than add SA. Plus specialized tests may run more quickly via specific parsing than a general regexp engine. Or some may just prefer not to implement cygwin on their machines (I seem to remember it being necessaary to implement SA).
In any case, I think this is a situation where there are many ways to implement, and for each different environment different solutions may be preferred. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bud Durland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] New test > I am testing a small external test program. A message fails the test > if there is an discernable IP address in the HELO entry of the > message... Just a little note here: while this test is surely valuable and its development much appreciated, I think creating a slew of external Declude "helpers" is suboptimal--for desktop heap overhead, if nothing else--when many of the tests could be wrapped by SpamAssassin custom rules and run all at once using SPAMC32. Remember that SpamAssassin has full Perl regular expression support and allows for auxiliary rules to be contributed via any number of external files (each rule with its own weight, at that). If the community concentrated on contributing SA rulesets, test development time could be sliced down to nearly zero. Now, I know that for some of you, this might seem vaguely treasonous--if you think of Declude and SA as rivals. We don't run SA without Declude, though, so I see it as more of a parent-child relationship. Anyway, it's just an idea. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.