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I don't see anything obvious as the rule appears here. I'm wondering if the
actual rule has some ISO high-bit character(s) in it that got stripped in
the posting to the list. That C2 looks like it might be an A with a circle
over it or some such.

The other possibility is maybe a bad rule just before or after this rule.

Loren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <cpollock@earthlink.net>
To: <spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 7:04 PM
Subject: Error with this rule


> I'm definately not a perl expression wiz. Running spamassassin --lint on
my
> rule sets netted this error. I haven't the foggiest what it means:
>
> Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
> (Unrecognized character \xC2 at
/etc/mail/spamassassin/1_myrule.cf,
> rule RM_usd_judaicawebstore, line 8.
>
> Here is the rule in question:
>
> uri RM_usd_judaicawebstore /judaicawebstore\.com/i
> describe RM_usd_judaicawebstore text references known spammer
> score RM_usd_judaicawebstore 3.000

From: "Chris" <cpollock@earthlink.net>

> I'm definately not a perl expression wiz. Running spamassassin --lint on
my
> rule sets netted this error. I haven't the foggiest what it means:
>
> Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
> (Unrecognized character \xC2 at
/etc/mail/spamassassin/1_myrule.cf,
> rule RM_usd_judaicawebstore, line 8.
>
> Here is the rule in question:
>
> uri RM_usd_judaicawebstore /judaicawebstore\.com/i
> describe RM_usd_judaicawebstore text references known spammer
> score RM_usd_judaicawebstore 3.000
>
> I didn't write the rule and can't remember where I found it.


Lints perfectly here. But I suspect a 0xc2 character was mashed to
something else in your rule above. (If the mashing simply removed
the MSB it'd be a 0x42, 'B'. But no capital B appears within the
three lines. So it was mashed to something else. It prints here as
the greater than or equal sign, '?'. (If that makes it through
email.) Your source file is "obviously" from a system running a
different character set than I am. {^_-}

What non-8 bit ASCII character appears on the "uri" line?

{^_^}

Hello Chris,

Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 7:04:09 PM, you wrote:

C> I'm definately not a perl expression wiz. Running spamassassin --lint on my
C> rule sets netted this error. I haven't the foggiest what it means:

C> Failed to compile URI SpamAssassin tests, skipping:
C> (Unrecognized character \xC2 at
C> /etc/mail/spamassassin/1_myrule.cf,
C> rule RM_usd_judaicawebstore, line 8.

C> Here is the rule in question:

C> uri RM_usd_judaicawebstore /judaicawebstore\.com/i
C> describe RM_usd_judaicawebstore text references known spammer
C> score RM_usd_judaicawebstore 3.000

C> I didn't write the rule and can't remember where I found it.

The prefix clearly indicates the rule is my creation, probably copied
from my wiki pages.

My live copy here is currently:
uri RM_usd_judaicawebstore /judaicawebstore\.com/i
describe RM_usd_judaicawebstore text references known spammer
score RM_usd_judaicawebstore 7.650 # type=spamgg - 1s/0h of 92209 corpus (74874s/17335h) 01/17/04

My system lints fine. I suspect something corrupted your copy in your
file, or maybe there's something wrong just above or below the rule (as
someone else suggested).

If you can send me your rules file as an attachment (so no mail client
anywhere can change the contents), I'll see if I can help you figure it
out.

Bob Menschel