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Author: Marilyn Davis
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To: Bruce Richardson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Is there a way to prepend lines to the body of a mail?
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:39:08AM -0700, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm using
> > > warn
> > > message = SOMEHEADER: Some value
> > > to add header lines from Exiscan ACLs. Now I'm wondering if there's a
> > > possibility to also add (or more precisely, prepend) lines to the body
> > > of a message? That would allow it to print the SpamAssassin report in
> > > the body of the mail where the user actually sees it instead of
> > > putting it into the header (where users obviously don't look).
> >
> > If the message is delivered via an appendifle or pipe transport then
> > you can say:
> >
> > message_prefix = Any thing you want
>
> message_prefix is inserted at the beginning of the entire message, not at
> the start of the message body. This will not do what he wants.


Thank you! You're right. I just tested it.

>
> Exim's job is delivering messages, not altering the messages they
> contain. The best way for the OP to do what he wants is to use the pipe
> transport to send spam-tagged messages through a filter that adds the
> necessary text.


message_suffix will add to the bottom of the message, if he likes that.

>
> Of course, Spamassassin is just such a filter. If the OP is not
> rejecting mail that Spamassasin flags, then he could take the Exiscan
> spam test out of his ACLs and simply run incoming mail through a
> standard Spamassassin pipe, with spamassassin configured to add the spam
> summary to the message body.


That's a good option.

Thank you again.

Marilyn Davis

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