Jeremy, Noel,

> I'm using SpamAssassin 3.2.5, and the "FreeMail.pm" plugin v2.001 from 
> http://sa.hege.li, along with the rules from the 20_freemail.cf file at the 
> same location.
>
> My first question is why does (mr.anthonywalter2010[at]gmail.com) appear 
> twice within the FREEMAIL_FROM entry inside the X-Spam-Report header? Is it 
> there twice because this address was used for both the Return-Path and the 
> From headers? In other words, should I expect the FREEMAIL_FROM entry to 
> list any freemail address which is used as the envelope sender, as well as 
> any freemail address used in the From header of the message? I had assumed 
> the FREEMAIL_FROM rule only looked at the From header but maybe that's 
> incorrect.
> 
> My second question is regarding the reference to 
> (financediamond[at]gmail.com) in the FREEMAIL_FROM results. That email 
> address does not appear anywhere in the entire message! Not in any of the 
> headers, nor in any part of the body. I've opened up the raw email file from 
> my mail server and searched the entire thing in a plain text editor, and 
> there is no reference anywhere to 'financediamond' at all. So why is the 
> FREEMAIL_FROM rule referring to that address? Is it a bug maybe? Could it 
> perhaps be crossing wires with another email which my SpamAssassin was 
> scanning at the same time, or something like that??
> 
> I am seeing this occasionally myself, including just now, except with
> 3.3.1 ( hence my search of the mailbox and found this, but only this
> post) somehow its mixing with addresses from separate emails altogether,
> this is postfix and SA is called from amavisd-new
> Was any suggestions given?

> I didn't receive any suggestions. I had hoped that when I would eventually
> upgrade to 3.3.x (haven't done that yet), that the problem would go away.
> So I'm sad to hear that it still exists.

It's a bug in the FreeMail.pm plugin. It forgets to reset the rule description
text with every message, to the addresses listed in a rule description
just accumulate from one message to the next. I think this only affects
text in a report, the rules probably hit correctly.

  Mark 

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