Rulset enhancement request

[Anthony Peacock]

Hi,

> my whitelist for the SA list is..
>
> From:
> users-return-*-martinh=solid-state-logic.com at spamassassin.apache.org
>  yes
>
> (all one line of course)
>
> you have to look carefully at how the actual From is constructed,
> there are others that have to be handled the same way

Thanks.  Mine is currently:

From:   spamassassin.apache.org         yes

Which is working now that I have subscribed with my email address
that comes straight to my server.

My original problem was that the forwarding process from my other
address was stripping the envelope 'From' and 'Return-Path' headers
so the SA From (in the format you show above) was not available to
compare the ruleset against.

Now argueably, I should be trying to get that process to do a proper
redirect and not mess with the emails.  But that will be like trying
to herd cats.

But the more I think about it, a more general syntax for the rulesets
would be useful.

> (risks-digest...) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid
> State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Anthony Peacock wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using MailScanner very happily on Solaris with Sendmail,
> > SpamAssassin and Sophos.
> >
> > I had reason to try to exclude a mailing list from being checked by
> > SpamAssassin recently (the SpamAssassin mailing list :-).  I
> > followed the directions and created a ruleset, which should have
> > excluded mails FromTo this list, restarted MailScanner and waited to
> > test. This didn't work, it seemed to be just ignoring the ruleset.
> > I did lots of digging, mailling list archives, google, documentation
> > etc. Upgraded all packages, I even uncommented debugging prints in
> > the code to try to work out what was going on!  This wasn't high
> > priority so kept moving on to other jobs, and returning to look into
> > this.
> >
> > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I discovered my problem.  I have
> > a number of emails addresses here at work, they all get
> > automatically forwarded to the mail server I run here.  I had used
> > one of the forwarded addresses to subscribe to the list in question
> > (policy decisions by the PHBs).  The forwarding process changed the
> > envelope sender address, to be forwarding at MUNGED-ucl.ac.uk instead
> > of the list address, so the rulesets were not hitting.  I solved the
> > problem by changing my subscription address to the one that comes
> > straight here.
> >
> > In this instance it would have really helped if I was able to check
> > against the 'List-ID' header in the ruleset instead of just 'From'
> > or 'To'.  I think being able to check against any header would be a
> > useful new feature.  The syntax could be:
> >
> > header: List-Id =~ /users.maillist.id/  yes
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> > Would it be possible to place this on the new feature wish list?
> >
> > If I can find any free time, I might be able to look at the code for
> > this, but I am swamped at the moment.
> >
> > --
> > Anthony Peacock
> > CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
> > WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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Anthony Peacock
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WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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