Important ZMailer patch

[Julian Field]

I have just applied the patch, seemed to go okay. This will be in
tomorrow's stable release.

At 19:51 31/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi Julian,
>
>I've configured MailScanner to not do any internal RBL, but leave them all to
>SpamAssassin so I don't block every RBL'd IP, but I seriously consider them
>when it hits more than one...
>
>Then I noticed a couple of surprising false positives and, analyzing them, I
>found that SpamAssassin was hitting rules it shouldn't on the first hop IP,
>even when the message was properly relayed...
>
>I started looking at the ZMailer queue files and suddenly noticed that, at
>the time MailScanner gets the message, ZMailer HAS NOT YET added its own
>'Received:' header (and there's no way to do it otherwise)... the info is in
>the ZMailer envelope, but not in the header.
>
>So, this means that, not only SA is doing its RBL on first hops even when a
>RBL rule is a '-notfirsthop' one, but actually, it wasn't doing RBL on the
>last hop at all :-((((
>
>This is not a problem if you enable RBLs in MailScanner itself, since that is
>the only IP MailScanner will check against the RBLs, but if I let only SA do
>RBL, it's completely ignoring the last (most important) hop.
>
>So... I wrote a patch to ZMailer.pm that adds a fake 'Received:' header just
>before handing the message to SpamAssassin (in OriginalMsgHeaders).
>
>I'm adding the patch to 4.29.6 ZMailer.pm, as well as the complete file.
>
>We're also working in a couple more things ZMailer related, I'll be sending
>them soon.
>
>Regards.
>
>
>--
>Mariano Absatz
>El Baby
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Why was I with her? She reminds me of you.
>In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!
>       -- Groucho Marx
>
>
>

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