On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:17:28PM -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote:
> 
> However, the webmail client is ignored in 3.3.2:
> Jun 24 14:37:29.686 [23089] dbg: received-header: ignored SquirrelMail
> injection: 41.206.11.5 (SquirrelMail authenticated user irivetti) by
> webmail.unisalento.it with HTTP
> 
> Leaving only Italy in the X-Relay-Countries header:
> Jun 24 14:37:29.689 [23089] dbg: metadata: X-Relay-Countries: IT ** ** IT
> If RelayCountry.pm is relying on Received.pm, I don¹t think we want to
> ignore the ultimate web-mail source, as that tends to be a pretty good
> indication of spamminess....

A simple search in the sources says that the change was implemented in 2004.

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3236

> Comparing with version 3.3.0 (which I happen to have around) I see all of
> the countries parsed.  I haven¹t upgraded the database for IP::Country::Fast
> on this box in a while....
> Jun 24 15:08:18.568 [17813] dbg: metadata: X-Relay-Countries: ** ** ** IT **
> ** IT

It didn't parse the SquirrelMail either, which is Nigerian.

But I agree that the reasons ignoring the header seem ridiculous today. I
suggest opening a new bug to discuss it.

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