Olivier,

>  Now it is working, it leads to another question: how the fingerprint
>  is being used by amavisd-new? How can it be used to compute some
>  validity of a message?

amavisd prepends a header field 'X-Amavis-OS-Fingerprint: ...'
(with information obtained from p0f) to a mail message as given
to SpamAssassin, which may then use the info in its rules.


Search RELEASE_NOTES for:
- passive operating-system fingerprinting (p0f) support lets SA gain
  information about SMTP client's operating system and estimated IP distance,
[...]

A but further down in the release notes you can find a set of rules
that can be given to SpamAssassin (e.g. in a file 'local.cf').

I find it particularly useful to reduce false positives on BOTNET rules,
but rules like L_P0F_WXP and L_P0F_W are quite useful by themselves
to indicate a mail likely to be coming from some infected home PC.

  Mark

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