Christian Mahne (sent by Nabble.com) <lists@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd started getting a lot more spam delivered a couple of weeks ago
> and couldn't work out why. Spam Assassin had been correctly
> identifying the messages and flagging them by changing subject lines
> etc. But Exim was failing to filter these messages out and they were
> still getting delivered.
>
> Closer investigation has revealed that Exim is passing these messages
> because it considers them to be bounces, so the X-Spam status header
> filters etc. are being ignored.
You, or someone, is responsible for configuring this behaviour - look at
your ACLs for something which bypasses content scanning for the null sender,
perhaps. Whatever you find, post more detail.
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I'd rather not - is this necessary? It's a mailing list and doesn't need
URLs...
Peter
