--On 4 January 2007 14:33:13 -0700 Chris Purves <chris.purves@???>
wrote:
> I have found what I believe to be a bug with spamassassin when
> performing spf checks on headers formed with exim. I have opened a
> bug report over three months ago, but haven't seen any action yet. If
> others are experiencing the same problem I would appreciate it if you
> would add a comment to the bug report to get things moving.
>
> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5112
>
> Summary of bug if you don't want to follow the link:
>
> Spamassassin needs to determine the HELO from the headers in order to
> do SPF checks. If HELO!=RDNS, then exim includes "HELO=..." in the
> received header and there is no problem. If HELO=RDNS, then exim does
> not include the HELO in the header and spamassassin thinks there was
> no HELO.
>
> Also, if anyone does not have this problem, I would like to know that
> as well. Thanks for your help.
You can fix this in your config by changing the value of
received_header_text such that it always includes helo=$sender_helo_name.
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
