On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I dug deeper into the problem of why I was not getting the
> X-Spam-Relay-Countries header added to my mail, and I think I understand
> things a bit better. (The goal is to see what countries the few false
> negatives are going through.)
>
> First of all, the correct add_header command seems to not be:
> add_header all Relay-Country _RELAYCOUNTRY_
>
> Instead, it should be:
> add_header all Relay-Countries _RELAYCOUNTRY_
>
> I saw that the plugin was active by running spamassassin -D.
>
> Also, by running spamassassin manually with a known piece of spam, I
> could see the X-Spam-Relay-Countries header being added but not when I ran
> spamc through sendmail/spamass-milter.
>
> The problem was that the headers were not be passed through by (drum roll
> please): spamass-milter even though I am *not* using the -M option. Also,
> I am using spamass-milter to reject mail during reception (via -r 5)
>
> I'm not looking for spamass-milter support from here (unless someone knows
> what to do), but I do like the way my system works and I'd like to
> continue using a milter to reject the spam. Are other people using milters
> with sendmail that don't suffer from this problem?
>
> TIA
The issue here is the way that sendmail milters work.
In the sendmail "system" milters work more as a 'T' not a traditional
unix "pipe". That is, the milter daemon receives a -copy- of the
input message, it then needs to activly send specific commands back
to the sendmail process telling sendmail what (if any) changes should
be made to the original.
More detail; spamass-milter receives a copy of the input message, it
then sends that on to spamd using the spamc-2-spamd protoocl.
spamass-milter receives the results of the scoring back from spamd,
spamass-milter evaluates the spamd results and then sends specific
commands back to the sendmail process telling sendmail to make a few
explicit changes to the original message (such as adding the
'X-Spam-Status' and 'X-Spam-Report' headers).
No changes will be added to the original messsage -except- for those
that spamass-milter knows to add. So if spamd adds headers that
spamass-milter doesn't know about, spamass-milter will not tell sendmail
to add them and thus they won't show up in the final results.
So to get your X-Spam-Relay-Countries header, you'll have to modify
spamass-milter to know about it and tell sendmail to add it.
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