mailscanner behind a smtpd frontend

[Philipp Snizek]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:10 +0100, Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 13/02/06, Alex Neuman van der Hans <alex at nkpanama.com> wrote:
> >  In any case you can check:
> >  bayes_ignore_header X-YOURDOMAIN-COM-MailScanner
> >  bayes_ignore_header X-YOURDOMAIN-COM-MailScanner-SpamCheck
> >  bayes_ignore_header X-YOURDOMAIN-COM-MailScanner-SpamScore
> >  bayes_ignore_header
> > X-YOURDOMAIN-COM-MailScanner-Information
> >
> >  ... from /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf for a clue.
> > You could write a few lines that include your particular headers and have SA
> > ignore them. I don't know if bayes_ignore_header takes regexps, but you
> > could look at the docs for SA and see for yourself.
> >
> Problem 1 is that you can't really do that for all the Received
> lines... And the original problem is that adding such a line is an RFC
> MUST. Sigh.
> 
> So unless one can do REs on it, you lose. Unfortunately,
> bayes_ignore_header doesn't seem to accept RE:s (from the man-page)...
> Perhaps Matt Kettler has a better clue...
> 
> So either you cannot use bayes (and might have issues beyond this), or
> you really need convince the owner/PHB to rethink their strategy... As
> it is, it'll probably hurt your results.

What about having MailScanner remove the received:from lines before the
mail gets injected into SpamAssassin? 
Is this possible?

Philipp