#1 network checks are failing because headers are incomplete

[wayne schlitt]

I happen to run SpamAssassin twice on each email, once
using SA-Exim and once using procmail. I noticed that
the scores from procmail were higher, often *MUCH*
higher so I investigated a little bit and found that
the DNSBL checks weren't being done in SA-Exim.

I wrote a little shell script to track the spamc
options and data that SA-Exim was using. I discovered
that the top Recieved: header (the one that is added by
Exim on my machine) is not being sent to spamc. I'm
not sure if this header has even been created yet or not.

The result, however, is that SpamAssassin will either
find no Received: headers and therefore can't check
DNSBL stuff, or it can be mislead into believing that
forged headers can be trusted since the top Received:
header is "always trustworthy".

[Marc Merlin]

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This is a known problem, but hard to fix, SA-Exim receives
the mail as such from Exim, and unfortunately Exim only adds
the extra line of header before delivery, but too late for
SA-Exim

BTW, sorry for the late reply, support for SA-Exim is done
on the mailing list.

[wayne schlitt]

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Thanks for the followup. I *think* this was actually fixed
quite a while, I forget how.