NO_DNS_FOR_FROM

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 15 17:06:53 IST 2004


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And with my patches?

At 16:40 15/10/2004, you wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:55:35 -0400, Matt Kettler <mkettler at EVI-INC.COM> wrote:
>
>Okay, I changed spam.assassin.prefs.conf as instructed, and then I manually
>edited my test message to change the header that MS had inserted at the
>bottom to look like 'X-MailScanner-From:', and then manually ran the test
>message through spamassassin. It worked great, and reported the hit on
>NO_DNS_FOR_FROM.
>
>So, time to go live. I edited MailScanner.conf to use 'Envelope From Header
>= X-MailScanner-From:' and restarted MS. Ran a test message through, but no
>hit on NO_DNS_FOR_FROM. I examined a message that had made it all the way
>through, and verified the bottom header: 'X-MailScanner-From:
>arffer at poiuy.net' had been inserted. But SA did not flag it.
>
>So, setting the spam.assassin.prefs.conf fixes messages manually run through
>SA, but messages sent to SA via MS still don't work.
>
>-Alan
>
> >I did some digging in the SA code, a bit deeper this time. It looks like
> >you have one of two options:
> >
> >Option 1 - Making SA recognize X-MailScaner-From:
> >-----------------------------------------
> >
> >First change the mailscanner from header back in MailScanner.conf.
> >         Envelope From Header = X-MailScanner-From:
> >
> >
> >Next make SA honor it in either local.cf or spam.assassin.prefs.conf:
> >         envelope_sender_header  X-MailScanner-From

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