If I recall well, when sendmail is configured for RBL it wil test the envellope and simply refuses the email. So what is passed to SA has been accepted on the envellope.
But the envellope does not mean the headers are correct, so it is worth SA check the headers too. Olivier > > It can't hurt to add the rule. Then people using RBL checks in exim can > > turn off the rbl checks in SA and automatically get the benefit of the > > rule w/out having to compose their own rule. I guess the only possible > > problem is where people don't turn off SA RBL checking and so messages > > get a double score because they hit the Exim header rule, and then also > > fail the RBL tests. > > I'm not debating the simple test. I'm wondering whether this would be a > good idea: > > > > > > Arguably this is too much of a guesswork... it could do the same parsing on > > > > the header as it does in its own internal RBL tests, perhaps? I think Exim > > > > includes the string the RBL servers return in the header. > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk