"Spam Header" setting when SpamAssassin not being used

[Jethro R Binks]

Sigh.  I should have course have added that I'm running MailScanner
4.22-5, having not had opportunity to move to the latest one yet.

Jethro.


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jethro R Binks wrote:

> I've briskly searched the archives, and can see a few hints about this but
> am unclear if it supposed to be fixed or a continuing problem.
>
> I have an MS installation that I just want to do Virus checks.  No Spam
> Assassin and no RBL checks of its own.  Using Exim 4.2x.
>
> I have the following settings, which work fine:
>
> Virus Scanning = %rules-dir%/whether-to-scan.rules
>  (default = "yes", only entry)
> Virus Scanners = mcafee
> Spam Header = X-Strath-UBECheck:
> Spam Checks = %rules-dir%/sa.scanning.rules
>  (default = "no", only entry)
> Spam List =
> Use SpamAssassin = %rules-dir%/sa.scanning.rules
>  (see above)
> Spam Score = yes
>
> A message doesn't appear to get SA-scanned, but it gets an empty:
>
> X-Strath-UBECheck:
>
> header added.  I don't want this, but if I make:
>
> Spam Header =
>
> (with no spaces after the "=" sign) then I get a spool file error in exim
> relating to the -H file written in the outgoing queue, which appears to be
> because of the last line added:
>
> 021  X-Strath-Scan: clean
> 002
>
> Since that doesn't show up too well, that's "002" (representing the number
> of chars in the line, including the newline), plus three spaces and a
> newline (two spaces to line up the columns, and one space of content).
>
> I think Exim is complaining because it wouldn't expect to find an
> essentially blank line in the -H.  Perhaps.  I used to see this ages ago
> occasionally with MS Ancient Version, but I did something unknown and it
> went away again.
>
> Anyway, I guess MailScanner shouldn't be printing this bogus space in
> first place, whatever Exim makes of it; does this information help find a
> bug?
>
> Jethro.
>
>
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> Jethro R Binks
> Computing Officer, IT Services
> University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
>


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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK