On X-Spam-Status, X-Spam-Flag, X-MailScanner-SpamCheck, and other weirdness

[Julian Field]

On 18/08/2009 14:44, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
>> 2009/8/17 Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>:
>>> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:16:03PM -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>>>>        I see what you mean, In fact, in my MailScanner.conf we 
>>>>> have lines
>>>>>        like
>>>>>
>>>>> Spam Actions = deliver header "X-Spam-Status: Yes"
>>>>>
>>>>> But one of the questions I have is that when it sees that header 
>>>>> in the
>>>>> mail, it does not wipe it and puts its own version. Instead it 
>>>>> appends the
>>>>> reply to the currently existing header, hence the
>>>>>
>>>>> X-Spam-Status: No, Yes
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Look at the documentation for the Multiple Headers setting in
>>>> MailScanner.conf
>>>> and see if changing it to
>>>>
>>>> Multiple Headers = replace
>>>>
>>>> solves your problem.
>>>>
>>>        Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and it is still 
>>> appending to
>>> that header. I also tried doing
>>>
>>> clear_headers
>>> remove header all Status
>>>
>>> in spam.assassin.prefs.conf with the same result. I think it just 
>>> does not
>>> like me...
>
>     I agree completely, but since I feel like I am on the end of my 
> rope here, I am trying anything I can think of. If fact, if someone 
> told me to rub a dead chicken on the server, I would go poultry 
> shopping... :)
>
>> As Jules said, the SA bit shouldn't matter. Did you remember to
>> restart MS after editing MailScanner.conf?
>>
>
> About restarting MS, I actually told it to first stop and then start 
> instead of just /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart kinda thing.
Doing a restart is actually more reliable than a stop rapidly followed 
by a start.

Jules

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