Re: line endings in body tests

Rainer,

Take a look at
https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/4.0.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html

body SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME /pattern/modifiers

...

"All body paragraphs (double-newline-separated blocks text) are turned into
a linebreaks-removed, whitespace-normalized, single line. Any lines longer
than 2kB are split into shorter separate lines (from a boundary when
possible), this may unexpectedly prevent pattern from matching. Patterns
are matched independently against each of these lines."

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM Rainer Sokoll via users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> SpamAssassin version 4.0.0
>   running on Perl version 5.36.0
>
> Debian 12 (bookworm)
>
> I’m pulling my hair out.
> A simple mail containing
>
> ------[snip]-----
> teststring
> some random text
> ------[snap]-----
>
> and a rule in local.cf:
> body TESTRULE /teststring$/
> score TESTRULE 5.0
>
> does NOT match when testing with spamassassin -t
> BUT when the mail body looks like
>
> ------[snip]-----
> teststring
>
> sometext
> ------[snap]-----
>
> the rule matches - why, why, why? There are no additional or hidden
> control characters.
>
> body TESTRULE /^teststring/
> score TESTRULE 5.0
>
> matches in any case. spamassassin --lint does not complain.
> I’m going slightly mad 🙁
>
> Background: I want to tag all mails that have lines ending with " ."
> (space period), if this pattern occures at least 3 times.
>
> I thought
>
> ------[snip]-----
> body __2025030701 /\s\.$/
> tflags __2025030701 multiple
> meta 2025030701 __2025030701 >= 3
> score 2025030701 5.0
> describe 2025030701 Mindestens 3 Zeilen enden auf " ."
> ------[snap]-----
>
> would do this, but I cannot get spamassassin to recognize the line endings.
>
> Any hint is appreciated,
>
> Rainer