Re: [Exim] Exiscan-ACL 4.31-16, wrong SpamAssassin report

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Author: Dominik Ruf
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exiscan-ACL 4.31-16, wrong SpamAssassin report
* Andreas M. Kirchwitz <exim-users-mlist@???> [2004-04-12 00:41]:
>
> I'm using Exim 4.31 + Exiscan-ACL 4.31-16 and SpamAssassin 2.63
> on a Red Hat Linux 9 system. I'm just wondering why Exiscan puts
> SpamAssassins long report into the message headers instead of
> the terse report as configured in SpamAssassin's "local.conf":
>
>     report_safe 0
>     report_header 1
>     use_terse_report 1


http://eu.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#deprecated%20options

| use_terse_report { 0 | 1 } (default: 1)

|
| This option is deprecated and does nothing. It will be removed in a
| future version.


>     defang_mime 0
>     rewrite_subject 0

>
> If I use "spamc" (with "spamd" running, of course ;-), headers like
> the following ones are added to the message headers:
>
>     X-Spam-Level: ********
>     X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=8.9 required=5.0 tests=BIZ_TLD,DATE_MISSING,
>             FORGED_RCVD_NET_HELO,HTML_20_30,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_06,HTML_MESSAGE,
>         HTML_TAG_BALANCE_HTML,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI,
>         RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=no version=2.63
>     X-Spam-Report:
>         *  1.0 DATE_MISSING Missing Date: header
>         *  0.3 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains a numeric HELO
>         [... etc ...]

>
> Okay, that's what I want (terse report). And now the same with Exiscan.


Use the SA options clear_report_template and report in your local.conf.
This way you should be able to achieve the same output.

> Exiscan is configured in ~exim/configure to use "spamd" like this:
>
>     spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783

>
> I've defined a DATA ACL like this to add a nice spam report
> to the message headers:
>
>     warn  message = X-Exiscan-SA-Score: $spam_bar ($spam_score)
>           spam = nobody:true
>     warn  message = X-Exiscan-SA-Report: $spam_report
>           spam = nobody:true

>
> Well, basically, it works. That's good. And the "X-Exiscan-SA-Score"
> header looks like expected (similar to "spamc" output):
>
>     X-Exiscan-SA-Score: ++++++++ (8.9)

>
> But the report is the long one (and not the terse one):


[snip long report]
> Yes, I already searched the exim-users mailing list and found out
> about SA options like "clear_report_template". I shouldn't get the
> regular (long) report at all, but the terse (compact) spam report.
> "spamc" does it as configured, but Exiscan does not.
>
> How comes the difference between Exiscan and "spamc"?


Exiscan does not call spamc, it directly calls spamd.
Exiscan does NOT put the message "through" spamd as a unix
filter or spamc would do. Instead Exiscan just hands a
COPY of the message over to spamd. Exiscan then only
gets back the results (Spam-Points, Report, ...) from
spamd, NOT the whole (possibly modified) message.

> If SpamAssassin
> is configured to give terse reports by default (because "local.conf"
> is system-wide; and no user configs exist), how is it possible for
> Exiscan to get the regular (long) report?


See above.

Dominik