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Comment: +how to add dynamic scores to TESTSSCORES

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sub check_example() {
    my ( $self, $pms ) = @_;
    ...
    #You do all your tests and whatever else here
    ...
    #Now we assume that the score you calculated is in $score
    
    #If the score is 0, then you don't need to do anything (obviously)

    if($score) {
        #Fetch the description of your rule from the configuration file
        my $description = $pms->{conf}->{descriptions}->{EXAMPLE_RULE_NAME};

        #The magic call
        $pms->_handle_hit("EXAMPLE_RULE_NAME", $score, "HEADER: ", $description);

        #Yet another magic call
        for my $set (0..3) {
	    $pms->{conf}->{scoreset}->[$set]->{"EXAMPLE_RULE_NAME"} =
                                                   sprintf("%0.3f", $score);
        }
    }
    
    return 0;
}

And thats it. The

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call will trigger a hit for the specified rule with the specified score. Area means for example BODY or HEADER, so this has to be changed according to what you are doing. Description is obvious, but in our example, we fetch the description from the configuration file, so you don't have to hardcode the description. Feel free to add additional dynamic data to the description, for example the ammount of hits or other useful informations.

Setting

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 $pms->{conf}->{scoreset}->[$set]->{"EXAMPLE_RULE_NAME"} 

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 lets the dynamic score appear in the template tag _TESTSSCORES_, which might be used for the X-Spam-Status line. (The for loop is necessary to set all 4 values, for their explanation see \[http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf\] item {{score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn}} )

The

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 return 0; 

is important because that will make sure that the actual rule that we defined earlier with the

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