Hi!
Am 08.02.2010 21:47, schrieb Shane Williams:
> I think you're both misunderstanding what the -b option does, and
> reading the man page, I can see how it could be more explicit.
>
> In any case, the -b option is used to send rejected mail to a
> specified email address (in case you want to inspect it). Someone can
As I understand the manual page, the "-b" option is not about
rejected mails but about tagged mails.
Tagged mails usually are a superset of rejected mails (i.e.
if the "reject" score is larger than the "tag" score)
A rejected mail will always be a tagged mail, but a tagged
mail not necessarily is a rejected mail.
So the question is (logically): should the handling of the "-b" option
include the whole set of tagged mails or the set of tagged mails minus
the set of rejected mails?
I (and I guess Christoph, too) want the "-b" option only to handle
the set of tagged mails reduced by the set of rejected mails but it
looks like it currently applies to the whole set of tagged mails.
The "reject" thing currently is just an additional feature, independent
of the "redirect" feature.
> correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what you're looking to do can't
> be done in spamass-milter. I would recommend a procmail recipe to do
> that instead.
>
Hm, I don't really like the procmail approach. It would add
an additional component in the chain. I'd rather rely on the
sendmail & milter components.
I just checked the source code of spamass-milter and it looks
like it does some extra steps just to provide a behaviour I
don't like...
Look at spamass-milter.cpp around line 450:
[...]
if (do_reject)
{
debug(D_MISC, "Rejecting");
smfi_setreply(ctx, "550", "5.7.1", "Blocked by
SpamAssassin");
if (flag_bucket)
{
/* If we also want a copy of the spam, shell out
to sendmail and
send another copy. The milter API will not
let you send the
message AND return a failure code to the
sender, so this is
the only way to do it. */
[...]
And then it continues with a popen() call just to start
sendmail on order to send the previously rejected mail to
the recipient given with the "-b" option.
(This also explains why in case of rejected mails the sendmail
logfiles look differently regarding the handling of headers)
I think I'm going to add another option to spamass-milter
just to tell it not to send a copy of the rejected mail.
It shouldn't be that hard to implement something working
the way I like, it might be harder to implement someting
the spamass-milter maintainer (and the community) likes.
Comments?
- andreas
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