Dear Spamassassin Users list: I'm running version 3.2.4. A couple of weeks ago, in response to a blowback storm, I turned on the VBounce ruleset, setting whitelist_bounce_relays as described on the wiki. I filtered ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE to its own folder, so I could keep an eye on it.
This seemed to work, until this morning. Now about half the backscatter appears to be successfully filtered, while the other half is getting through. The overall rate has spiked, from about 2/day to 12 in about an hour, although it's now calmed down again. I've tested messages that got through, piping them to 'spamc -R', and sure enough, no BOUNCE flags. I tried changing the value of whitelist_bounce_relays to something else (to make sure the Received header parsing isn't getting faked out somehow), restarting spamassassin, and testing again. Still no BOUNCE flags. I've also verified that the messages that did get filtered still properly elicit a BOUNCE flag from spamassassin. This is weird. I'm not sure what else to check. I can make a few messages available to people who would like to look them over, if that seems worthwhile. Carlo -- Carlo Graziani (773) 702-7973 (Voice) Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (773) 702-6645 (FAX) University of Chicago 5640 South Ellis Avenue | If the free market really allocates resources Chicago, IL 60637 | efficiently, why does LA have four times as [EMAIL PROTECTED] | many plastic surgeons as brain surgeons?
