inconsistent SPF warning

[Julian Field]

On 8/12/04 10:00 pm, "Matt Kettler" <mkettler at EVI-INC.COM> wrote:
> At 01:48 PM 12/8/2004, Mark Nienberg wrote:
>>> Mark Nienberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> It appeared that SA wasn't always using the value of
>>>> "envelope_sender_header".  (I assume MailScanner really does pass the
>>>> correct value to SA, because I'm pretty sure Julian is infallible).
>>>
>>>
>>> It uses the "Envelope From Header" from your MailScanner.conf, which by
>>> default is "X-MailScanner-From". And it puts it as the first header in
>>> what is passed to SA, so that SA trusts it.
>>>
>> Yes.  After which SA apparently sometimes chooses to use an address form
>> some other header instead.
>
> Something worth testing might be to move the envelope_sender_header setting
> out of spam.assassin.prefs.conf and into local.cf.
>
> It could be that some of the new spamd semantics that reset the user_prefs
> after each message might be tripping up MailScanner. If it happened,the
> result would be that a given MailScanner child only uses the
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf for the first message it handles, then reverts to
> local.cf only until it was killed and respawned.

But MailScanner doesn't use spamd...
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