Schlueterica

By popular demand, I’ll tell you all how I managed to get my server to recheck all my not-yet-rechecked spam keywords.

Before you go any further, you’ll have to do EdB’s antispam recheck hacks, since we’ll be making use of those.

Read on for the how-to.

The requirements are the same as last time:

1. No log-in required
2. Server-Side

Here’s the script that I created. It’s just a stripped-down version of the regular b2antispam.php file. It goes through a loop rechecking each of the antispam strings that haven’t yet been rechecked. Of course, if you didn’t do EdB’s antispam recheck hacks, this won’t work. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.

Here’s the file. Save b2antispam_recheck.php, and upload to your admin directory:

Special Note:

You may have problems, depending on how you implemented EdB’s hack, with this line, kinda near the top:

WHERE aspm_checked = 'no'") )

Basically, this bit is trying to grab all the antispam strings that haven’t been rechecked yet. If you used “gotit” and “needs”, then you’d replace “no” with “needs”. I just used EdB’s first draft, where he used “yes” and “no”.

Next, set up a cron on your server, with this sort of command line. (Check with your host for the specifics on this)

0 */6 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/my_username/public_html/admin/b2antispam_recheck.php

If you want to keep it to one script, and you’ve already done my auto-polling script, then you could just add this line to the bottom of b2antispam_poll.php instead of adding another cron job:

include dirname(__FILE__) . '/b2antispam_recheck.php';

That would have the added advantage of rechecking right after polling for updates.