Envelope senders, SA and MailScanner (& patch)

Quentin Campbell Q.G.Campbell at NEWCASTLE.AC.UK
Wed Oct 6 16:26:39 IST 2004


Julian

I applied this patch to a 4.34.8-1 system and re-started MailScanner but
am not seeing the EnvelopEFrom: header in the delivered messages. 

I have not followed the SA.pm code through in detail but was the
intention to only add this header to the copy of the message passed to
SpamAssassin?

Quentin
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list 
>[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: 04 October 2004 11:54
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Envelope senders, SA and MailScanner
>
>Well spotted.
>Attached is a patch to add this feature.
>
>At 11:00 04/10/2004, you wrote:
>>Hello all...
>>
>>In the recent SA 3.0.0 release announcement, I saw under 'Engine
>>Changes':
>>
>>   - Rules can now test the "MAIL FROM:" address used in the SMTP
>>     transaction if it was logged to the message headers using the
>>     "EnvelopeFrom" pseudo-header.  This allows rules such as 
>SPF to be
>>     applied.
>>
>>Does MailScanner support this? Does it automatically pass the envelope
>>sender (seeing as MS clearly knows it), or does this require some
>>further configuration?
>>
>>Just curious!
>
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