On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Craig Jackson wrote:
> I notice that the return-path: is often different from the from:
>
> But my return-path: tests all fail. Here's one:
>
> header RETPATH_NUMS_CJ Return-path =~ /[0-9]{6,}/
> score RETPATH_NUMS_CJ 3.000
>
> It will successfully match From:addr or Reply-To: but Return-path is
> silent. Yes, I tried Return-Path, but I believe this is case insensitive.
>
> Can SA do this?
Yes, -IF- the Return-Path header is present in the stuff that gets
passed to your SA. 'Return-Path' header is usually not added by the MTA
but by the delivery agent at delivery time. If you're calling SA before
that point, then that header will not be in the stuff that SA has to
look at.
Return-Path is often used as a way to represent the envelope sender
address in the header of a message. As that may change during the
routing/processing of the message (EG a mail-list ;) it usually isn't
generated until the final delivery point.
So if you're using SA as a sendmail-milter, postfix filter, etc
it's entirely probable that the Return-Path header isn't in the
message that SA sees.
I use SA with a sendmail-milter and ran into this issue early on.
I ended up hacking the milter code to get it to synthesize a Return-Path
header in the data as it passed a message to spamd.
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