Re: [exim] Spamassassin status header - confused!

John Horne wrote:
>>
> Thanks for this. I played with the spamc/spamd protocol this morning and
> tried the SYMBOLS and REPORT commands to see what happens. In our case
> though, we configure the 'report' specially and it doesn't include the
> SA tests that were used (it's a University policy thing). So only
> SYMBOLS showed the tests SA used.

Is Spamassassin being used for anything on this box other than Exim? If
not, then you should tell the policymakers to stuff it, because their
policy is setting a variable that is simply _not_being_used_ for their
intended purpose.

The overloading of the report in this way sucks, but it is the only
textual data channel between spamassassin and exim that you've got to
work with currently. If the University wants to enforce certain text
being added to certain headers in the event of spam, they should enforce
that with a policy that specifies the intended _effect_, not its
_implementation_.

- Marc