recently I've noticed this fault: when my MTA receives mail identified as spam (score > 7.0) from a specific external distribution list, SA tags the message, and instead of discarding the message (as set by the CommuniGate rule), it delivers it to the recipient (a user of mine who is subscribed to that external list), moreover SpamAssassin generates a reply to the sender (the list itself), even though I've never configure SA to do it!
This behavior amplifies the damage sending SpamAssassin reports to an entire mailing list (many thousands of people) where already victims of the original spam message...!
Is this a SA known bug? Or I have something misconfigured...?
None of this can be done by spamassasin. It's being done by Communigate, and you need to look at how Communigate is configured.
The reason I say this is that it is logically impossible for SA itself to generate emails. The way it interacts with your mail system makes it impossible.
SA itself cannot ever delete, create, or change the delivery of messages.. SA can only modify the headers and body of a given message and make a judgement about it being spam or not. SA acts as a filter, and thus is called upon by your mail system and is given an email to process. SA does not have any support for reversing that relationship, and cannot call on you mail system to process some kind of reply and/or bounce message.
Lots of other programs, such as communigate, add functionality to look at SA's decisions about the email and do things like discard, generate a reply, etc.. However, none of this is under any control of SA itself and is completely beyond SA's own capabilities.
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