You're correct. I did not test my 'discovery' properly before jumping to
this conclusion.
I appreciate the pointer to the IGNORE behavior. I'll endeavor to ignore
any virus
or spam filtering headers from incoming email.
I've still got the mystery of how his email gets in without being scored
Clifton:
I am pretty sure amavisd-new does *not* work this way. It has an
implicit list of checks to run on each incoming mail, starting with
virus scanning, and works its way through them. If it's working this
way for you, it may be the result of something funky in your Postfix
Chris,
I've still got the mystery of how his email gets in without being scored
by Amavis. When I run spamassassin on it, it gets a very high score.
Other spam gets filtered just fine. Somehow, this one spammer avoids it.
Perhaps it was larger than $sa_mail_body_size_limit, or the recipient