On Tue, 12 May 2026, Benoit Panizzon wrote:
MIMEdefang directly loads the Mail::SpamAssassin perl module.
As far as I know, there is exactly one additional config file passed to
SpamAssassin when invoked from MIMEdefang.
And I can't make out differences, this is what is puzzling me.
If I put rules in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf they are run in both
cases (as root from command line with spamassassin -D -t) and from
MIMEdefang.
Any rules in /usr/share/spamassassin (debian default path) are also run
in both cases.
So what could make the specific rule TO_IN_SUBJ never reporting a hit
when run from MIMEdefang but perfectly matching when I save that exact
same email as rfc/822 and then run spamassassin -D -t on that file?
I'm trying to find a way to run spamassassin in debug mode from
MIMEdefang to maybe get more hints what is going wrong.
How does the message reach MIMEdefang ?
Does it get the Envelope To and From, or just the headers and body ?
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