Re: Problem with writing rules based on X-headers
spamassassin --lint doesn't report any errors. However, I think I have found the source of the problem. spamassassin seems to regard all X-Spam headers as its personal domain and ignores them for processing. The relevant line in PerMsgStatus.pm is $self->{msg}->delete_header('X-Spam-.*'); If I comment out this line, my rule starts working again. I am unsure why spamassassin in version 3.1 doesn't want to include the rule for processing. I could understand it, if there was a concern that spammers were writing their own X-headers to fool mail readers. However, spamassassin still passes on these headers (whether they are bogus or not. It just doesn't use them for rule processing). Anyway, my problem seems to be solved. Thanks for all comments Dave Matt Kettler wrote: Subject: Re: Problem with writing rules based on X-headers From: Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:57:52 -0400 To: David Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org David Robson wrote: Hi, My site runs spamassassin. Our ISP runs a spam checker, that adds an X-header to our email of the form X-Spam-Bar: ### where the number of hashes indicate the likelihood of spam. I have written a rule for our spamassassin, which makes use of this X-header, so I can make use of both spam checkers. This has worked well and reliably for a number of years, until we upgraded from spamassassin 2.60 to spamassassin 3.1.9 Although all our other local rules work, this one no longer has any affect. It looks as if the "header" rules for version 3.1.9 no longer work on X-headers, although they did in version 2.60 Can anyone confirm this, and can anyone suggest a work around?? All help gratefully received. It should work just fine. Two questions: 1) have you run spamassassin --lint after your upgrade? It could be that SA is choking on your config file further up and ditching it. 2) where is this declared? user_prefs, or a *.cf file in your site rules dir? 3) if user_prefs, do you use spamd? Do you have allow_user_rules set to 1 at the site rules level? Dave The rule in question is header DWR X-Spam-Bar =~ /\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#/i describe DWR Contains: Spam detected by our ISP scoreDWR 5.50 Looks perfectly fine to me.
Re: Problem with writing rules based on X-headers
David Robson wrote: > Hi, > > My site runs spamassassin. Our ISP runs a spam checker, that adds an > X-header to our email of the form > > X-Spam-Bar: ### > > where the number of hashes indicate the likelihood of spam. I have > written > a rule for our spamassassin, which makes use of this X-header, so I can > make use of both spam checkers. This has worked well and reliably for > a number of years, until we upgraded from spamassassin 2.60 to > spamassassin 3.1.9 > > Although all our other local rules work, this one no longer has any > affect. > It looks as if the "header" rules for version 3.1.9 no longer work on > X-headers, although they did in version 2.60 > > Can anyone confirm this, and can anyone suggest a work around?? All > help gratefully received. It should work just fine. Two questions: 1) have you run spamassassin --lint after your upgrade? It could be that SA is choking on your config file further up and ditching it. 2) where is this declared? user_prefs, or a *.cf file in your site rules dir? 3) if user_prefs, do you use spamd? Do you have allow_user_rules set to 1 at the site rules level? > > Dave > > The rule in question is > > header DWR X-Spam-Bar =~ /\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#/i > describe DWR Contains: Spam detected by our ISP > scoreDWR 5.50 > Looks perfectly fine to me. > > >
Problem with writing rules based on X-headers
Hi, My site runs spamassassin. Our ISP runs a spam checker, that adds an X-header to our email of the form X-Spam-Bar: ### where the number of hashes indicate the likelihood of spam. I have written a rule for our spamassassin, which makes use of this X-header, so I can make use of both spam checkers. This has worked well and reliably for a number of years, until we upgraded from spamassassin 2.60 to spamassassin 3.1.9 Although all our other local rules work, this one no longer has any affect. It looks as if the "header" rules for version 3.1.9 no longer work on X-headers, although they did in version 2.60 Can anyone confirm this, and can anyone suggest a work around?? All help gratefully received. Dave The rule in question is header DWR X-Spam-Bar =~ /\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#/i describe DWR Contains: Spam detected by our ISP scoreDWR 5.50