On 9 Mar 2007 at 21:19, Mark Martinec wrote:

> Header checks, even if triggered, do not prevent spam checks from running.

Thanks, I do understand that. I think my question may have been unclear. I was 
not saying that BH 
prevents any spam checks from running (see below*).

As luck would have it, I have just seen two quarantined messages that answer my 
own question!
The emails have both "X-Spam-..." and "X-Amavis-Alert:  BAD HEADER..." headers 
added and the
emails are quarantined as: "spam-*", not as "badh-".

> Check the log, demonstrate that spam checks were really skipped.

I was not suggesting any spam checks were skipped. I did not mean override in 
the sense of "disable". 
"Supersede when positive" would have been a better term to use.

Perhaps a better way of asking the original question is like this:

*If SA returns a score above the kill level, and afterwards Amavisd-new finds a 
bad header, does a 
positive BH result supersede the SA score? (No).
Are both sets of headers added? (Yes).
Is the message quarantined as "badh-*" or as "spam-"? (As "spam-")

I am guessing the "spams" that did not score automatically must have simply had 
an auto-whitelist bias 
after all.

> Spam results do have priority over bad headers. The order goes like:
>   CC_VIRUS
>   CC_BANNED
>   CC_UNCHECKED
>   CC_SPAM
>   CC_SPAMMY
>   CC_BADH
>   CC_OVERSIZED
>   CC_MTA
>   CC_CLEAN

Thanks for this info anyway.

> I'm not sure what you are seing actually. Which version of amavisd-new?

FTR it is 2.4.4
SA 3.1.7

Mark

Mark Tiramani
FREDO Internet Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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