Envelope From Header inconsistencies

[Julian Field]

I have just added a check to MailScanner --lint to check these settings 
match.

Randal, Phil wrote:
> That would be great.
>
> It's an easily overlooked misconfig which would prevent spamassassin's
> SPF checking from working.
>
> The things you find when you lock yourself away in a quiet room for a
> few days and sanity-check everything without having to deal with the
> phone ringing every 10 minutes :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Julian Field
>> Sent: 27 July 2007 14:33
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Envelope From Header inconsistencies
>>
>>
>>
>> Randal, Phil wrote:
>>     
>>> There's a slight inconsistency in MailScanner's config 
>>>       
>> files regarding
>>     
>>> the Envelope From Header.
>>>
>>> MailScanner.conf.rpmnew:Envelope From Header =
>>> X-%org-name%-MailScanner-From:
>>>
>>> spam.assassin.prefs.conf.rpmnew:envelope_sender_header
>>> X-MailScanner-From
>>>
>>> That's not going to work correctly out of the box.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes, you need to customise the spam.assassin.prefs.conf file 
>> to get the 
>> envelope_sender_header correct. I can't easily customise it for you.
>>     
>>> Is this inconsistency something that MailScanner --lint 
>>>       
>> could catch in
>>     
>>> future?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes, it could. I'll take a look at doing that.
>>
>>     
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Phil
>>> --
>>> Phil Randal
>>> Network Engineer
>>> Herefordshire Council
>>> Hereford, UK
>>>   
>>>       
>> Jules
>>
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