is this just me? SPF cannot find Envelope-From?

[Julian Field]

Take a look in spam.assassin.prefs.conf. Mine says this:

# SpamAssassin will attempt to discover the address used in the 'MAIL 
FROM:'
# phase of the SMTP transaction that delivered this message, if this data
# has been made available by the SMTP server. This is used in the 
EnvelopeFrom
# pseudo-header, and for various rules such as SPF checking.

# This should be explicitly set for MailScanner
envelope_sender_header X-ECS-MailScanner-From

Basically you have to tell it where and how to find the Envelope From 
address in the headers. So make sure your MailScanner is adding this 
header (obviously you can call it whatever you like, this is for my site).


Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> Hope this isn't considered OT.  Not sure if the problem is MS, SA, or
> (more likely) me.
>  
> No matter what I set the envelope_sender_header to in
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf, SA claims it "cannot get Envelope-From, cannot
> use SPF".
>  
> Is my test method is bad?  I take a known spam message that has been
> quarantined on another system, add an X-MailScanner-From header with my
> own address (for which SPF records are defined), and pass it into
> spamassassin -D --lint.
>  
> The SA lint output does show that spam.assassin.prefs.conf is being
> loaded, after local.cf.  The server listed in the Received headers is
> not one of mine.  Here's the test message headers that I've been using:
>  
> ------Begin-test-message-headers------
> Return-Path: <g>
> Received: from 61.53.153.90 (hn.kd.dhcp [61.53.153.90] (may be forged))
>         by relay.public.herff-jones.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with
> SMTP id k6L5NOr6032242;
>         Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:23:26 -0400
> Message-Id: <200607210523.k6L5NOr6032242 at relay.public.herff-jones.com>
> From: "Chrystal Kincaid" <hjltcrk at lzbuhgrncx.com>
> To: ksbillups at herff-jones.com
> Reply-To: Ksbillupscd7 at ekqdgeiwhjb.com
> Subject: Re: Our bonus for you: $888 FREE TODAY!
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:56:10 -0800
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>         format=flowed;
>         charset="iso-8859-1";
>         reply-type=original
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3
> X-Mailer: Eudora mail 1.1.3
> X-HJMailScanner-From: tgfurnish at herffjones.com
> X-Envelope-From: tgfurnish at herffjones.com
> Envelope-From: tgfurnish at herffjones.com
> ------End-test-message-headers------
> 
> There are three similar headers there only because I was trying to find
> a header format that would make the "cannot get Envelope-From" error go
> away.
> 
> 
> --
> Trever

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