Re: [exim] Problem with spam scanning

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Problem with spam scanning


Renaud Allard wrote:
>
> Renaud Allard wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just went into some problems with spam scanning. I do not know whether
>> it's really related on my upgrade of spamassassin to v3.1.8, but I saw
>> the issue at the same time.
>>
>> The problem is that mails are altered after using an ACL with spam
>> scanning. I am not using the old demime method. There is a carriage
>> return that is added between the message and the attachments. That means
>> signed mails fail validation because the message has been altered. It
>> does not cause any problem with unsigned mails or encrypted mails however.
>>
>> I don't see any reason why spamassassin should modify the mail if called
>> from the ACLs. But after I removed the "spam= nobody:true" in the ACLs,
>> the problem stopped.
>>
>
> It seems that manually running spamc on an email that passed without the
> "spam=" ACL doesn't alter the message and the signature is verified
> successfully. So the problem does not seem to be related to spamassassin
> but to exim with spamassassin scanning in ACLs.



Update: I just installed the latest exim snapshot and the problem is solved.