Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment deliver problems

[Julian Field]

Exactly what resulting message are you expecting?

What "attachment deliver" (it doesn't matter about the order) will do is
take the original spam message, and turn it into an RFC-822 attachment of a
new replacement message. The body of the new replacement message will say a
bit about what happened, give the From+To+Subject information, and include
an attachment which is the original message. Not all mail apps can actually
handle RFC-822 but Outlook handles them perfectly. In Outlook you can open
the attachment and it appears as a complete new message, which is exactly
what should happen.

What do you think should be happening?

I will take a look at adding code to insert the SA report at the beginning
of the message body. No guarantees though.

At 03:01 29/03/2004, you wrote:
>Only outbound, we don't check for spam or RBL on outbound stuff.
>
>It's tagging it as Spam.  It's just not converting it to a attachment with
>the report from the config.
>
>Everything looks good, it's just not doing the attachment, but it shows in
>the log that it's action is attachment deliver..
>
>
>On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Mike Kercher wrote:
>
> > Do you have any whitelisting rulesets that might be offsetting your spam
> > scoring or other rulesets?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of brichter
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:34 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment
> > > deliver problems
> > >
> > > I was wondering if someone could please help me confirm this
> > > should work.
> > >
> > > I am on a last ditch effort to find a solution to my problem
> > > without abandoning Mail Scanner.
> > >
> > > I have to be able to have end users forward a message to our
> > > help desk when something fails the Spam Check to determine if
> > > it's a false positive or not.  Since there is no way to pass
> > > the REPORT information from Spam Assassin to Mail Scanner
> > > (Outlook does NOT forward headers, and my Boss has told me to
> > > find another solution if we cannot work around this) I have
> > > found this might be a possible solution for my situation, I
> > > just can't get it to work in Mail Scanner.  I have tried
> > > everything I can think of.
> > >
> > > When I specify in my Mail Scanner config:
> > >
> > > Spam Actions = attachment deliver
> > >
> > > When a message is tagged as Spam I get this in the log:
> > >
> > > Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Spam Checks: Found 1
> > > spam messages Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Spam
> > > Actions: message i2T047Z01515 actions are attachment,deliver
> > > Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Unscanned: Delivered
> > > 1 messages
> > >
> > > But when I go to open that message, it has NOT been converted
> > > into an attachment and appended onto the report file
> > > designated in the Mailscanner.conf file.  I have tried
> > > reversing the attachment deliver options, I have tried it on
> > > High SCoring SPAM, normal Spam.  It NEVER gets converted into
> > > an attachment.
> > >
> > > I am using Mailscanner-4.28.6-1
> > >
> > > I have searched the forums with no luck.  I just see
> > > references to needing both attachment and deliver to get it
> > > to work. (And I have that set)
> > >
> > > Thanks much
> > >
> >

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