>At 08:48 AM 12/27/2005, Jonn R Taylor wrote:
>>How can I make this go thourgh SA when it thinks it allready has????
>
>Why wouldn't it go through SA?
>
>SA doesn't have any built-in behaviors that will prevent it from
>re-scanning a message.
>
>Did you do something in your procmailrc to cause procmail to skip SA if an
>X-Spam-Status header exists?
>
>This is generally a bad idea.
>Anyone can forge a SA header, but in this case it's more likely the message
>went through a real version of SA on the sender's side. However, the
>sender's own SA is likely configured to consider his/her own mail as not spam.
>
>You can only safely skip messages with an X-Spam-Status: that reads "yes",
>due to the fact that you can't trust it. Of course, spammers can always
>forge a X-Spam-Status: on themselves that declares the message to be spam,
>but if they do.. more power to em..
>
Or even better, you can check for already marked positive spam
headers and refuse the email on that basis (for like some sites who scan
outgoing mail, but pass mail marked as spam on anyway e.g. ufl.edu is "big"
on this).
Paul Shupak
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