inconsistent SPF and this list

[Mark Nienberg]

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Julian Field wrote:

> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>
>> Matt Kettler wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:56 PM 12/7/2004, Mark Nienberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a test, I changed  to
>>>> envelope_sender_header Return-Path
>>>>
>>>> which is what sendmail adds to the top of evey message.  You can
>>>> see in
>>>> my examples that it is always the same as X-MailScanner-From.  But
>>>> this
>>>> doesn't work at all.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No, and it won't work because sendmail does not add that to the top of
>>> every message. It only adds it when it delivers the message to a
>>> mailbox.
>>> It does not add it during transport or queue, so it will not be added
>>> when
>>> MailScanner feeds it to SA.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ahh, that explains it.  Thanks for the info.  I might have wasted a lot
>> of effort on that.  I guess that leaves me with the task of getting
>> sendmail to add a new header.
>>
>> According to http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2142
>>
>> I should use the following in sendmail.cf:
>>
>> H?l?X-Envelope-From: $f
>>
>> Is there a sendmail guru who can tell me how to add this to sendmail.mc
>> so it will appear in sendmail.cf after m4? Thanks,
>
>
> MailScanner adds an extra header at the start of the headers, whose name
> is given by the Envelope From Header in MailScanner.conf, at the start
> of the message that is passed to SpamAssassin, specifically so that the
> SPF stuff can work. The extra header is not kept in the message
> permanently, it's just put in there as the mail is piped to SpamAssassin.
>
>
Yes, I followed the previous thread about this as you were working out
the details.  But it doesn't seem to be working for me, as shown in my
examples.  So I'm looking for alternatives.

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Mark Nienberg, SE
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