From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org> 
Subject: spamassassin: syntax of symbolic test names not defined 
X-Debbugs-CC: Francesco Potorti` <pot@softwarelibero.it>
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Message-Id: <E17ZSPi-0006xq-00@pot.cnuce.cnr.it>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:31:30 +0200
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Package: spamassassin
Version: 2.31-2
Severity: wishlist

I wish the man page of Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf defined the syntax of
symbolic test names.

I needed some time to discover that the cryptic error that spamassassin
gave to me was due to a symbolic test name that I defined like this:
"679_96".  I suppose that the problem is that the name doe not begin
with a letter, and the compiler created a variable name from it by
appending stuff and not checking this problem.

I suggest that either the spamassassin compiler checks the names and
adjusts them, or that theis problem is clearly specified in the docs.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pot.cnuce.cnr.it 2.4.18 #1 Fri May 17 13:44:40 CEST 2002
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages spamassassin depends on:
ii  libnet-smtp-se 1.0-1          A native Perl SMTP Server implementation
ii  libtime-hires- 1.20-4         High-resolution time manipulation in perl
ii  perl           5.6.1-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
ii  spamc          2.31-2         Client for perl-based spam filtering daemon
ii  sysvinit       2.84-3         System-V like init.