> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Jon Dossey wrote: > > > > Sounds like a spamass-milter bug... have you checked their site: > > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=spamass-milt > > > > I don't think it's a milter problem, because the messages are being > > tagged - the subject just isn't being rewritten if the score is > > > required_score. So I know they're making it to spamc/d. > > > > I've checked my local.cf and user_prefs - is there any other > > configuration file that could be overriding my settings defined in those > > files? > > Jon, > You may not understand how a sendmail milter works, it's not quite > like a classical unix filter 'pipe'. > > When you use spamd/spamc as a filter in something like procmail or > postfix, the original message is fed to spamc via its standard-in > and the spamc's standard-out then is used as the message (IE spamc's > std-out replaced the original). > > With the sendmail milter system, sendmail hangs on to the original > message and a COPY of the message is handed to the milter. The milter > can, as a result of its cogitations, pass commands back to sendmail > telling it to modify or add to specific parts of the original message, > but there is no easy way to REPACE the original message in its > entirety. > > Thus the milter must "notice" that spamc returned a modified subject > and then issue the appropriate commands back to sendmail telling it to > modify it's idea of what the original subject should be. > > So this does sound like a milter problem, not spamc/d >
News to me, thanks for the information David. That would definitely explain why I can pass the *EXACT* same message to spamc by hand, and it returns the message with the subject modified. The "problem" can only be reproduced using the spamass-milter, so that should have led me to believe it was a problem with the milter to begin with. I'm just going to compile the latest version of the milter (which I really should have just done to begin with, but this is a production machine, so its hard to get time to do it) and see how it goes from there. Thanks for everyone's help so far, I know this seems like a ridiculous question. Thanks, Jon
