Re: [exim] Ocassional spam forwarding

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: Jeff Lasman, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Ocassional spam forwarding


--On 8 February 2011 09:35:49 -0800 Jeff Lasman <blists@???>
wrote:

> On Monday, February 07, 2011 07:34:49 am Miroslaw Baran wrote:
>
>> Spamassassin's Bayesian module will handily ignore any header you want;
>> I have the following in my /etc/local.cf file:
>>
>> bayes_ignore_header X-Bogosity
>> bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Flag
>> bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Status
>>
>> …so unless you're using some other spamassassin module that might be
>> misled by the presence of some headers, all should work fine. (It surely
>> works for me – I'm using SA 3.3.1 and exim4 from Debian Squeeze)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Problem is we don't send email to SpamAssassin if it already has
> SpamAssassin headers.


So, if a spammer has added fake headers, they get a free pass?

> Yes, I can change that. Once I change that, and I use your code to
> ignore certain headers, does the current instance of SpamAssassin
> rescore everything?


Yes.

> Jeff
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