I've developed a minor problem that takes some effort to describe so bare with me...
In my configuration I'm using Network Associates WebSheild SMTP to scan for viruses. This machine forwards all outgoing email to its destination. All incoming email gets forwarded to a machine dedicated to runing spamassassin. In turn that machine routes all incoming mail to the real server and anything it can't send there it returns to the WebShield machine. The real server accepts mail from our users only and sends it to the webshield server. So incoming looks like it goes to A then B then C and outgoing looks like it is going to C then A. The problem comes in with regard to RFC822 compliance. Websheild is designed to destroy or quarantine any email that is not RFC822 compliant. There is just to much to sort through to quarantine so I prefer to send it to never never land. The catch is when a user has their email set to forward to an outside account. Any incoming email that spamassassin tags as spam gets caught on the way out at the webshield server as corrupt because it finds something in the headers that it thinks are not RFC822 compliant. After spending a few days tracking the problem and reading the RFC I think I've found the problem to be in the From: header. According to the rfc there can not be a space unless it is quoted (simplified). Ie: From: John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is not compliant but From: "John Doe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is. It seems that is where Webshield is choking on spamassassin taged emails that are redirected to the outside. Now I may be mistaken, it may be something else even more subtle than that. Any suggestions? +++++++++++++++++++++ Kevin W. Gagel Postmaster for College of New Caledonia (250) 561-2131 loc. 448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
