[exim] question regarding spamassassin in exim, especially headers

2011-07-14 Thread David Mathog
spamassassin has a huge set of configuration files, on my system it looks in these three places, plus at a user config file: /usr/share/spamassassin/ /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org/ /etc/mail/spamassassin Nevertheless, none of the headers defined by add_header in any of

Re: [exim] question regarding spamassassin in exim, especially headers

2011-07-14 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-07-13 at 10:14 -0700, David Mathog wrote: Nevertheless, none of the headers defined by add_header in any of those many configuration files actually show up in the messages. Instead the only headers created are those defined in exim.conf in this section: SpamAssassin's added headers

Re: [exim] question regarding spamassassin in exim, especially headers

2011-07-14 Thread Todd Lyons
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:14 AM, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu wrote: Nevertheless, none of the headers defined by add_header in any of those many configuration files actually show up in the messages. Exim parses the response and stuffs the values into variables. It's up to you to decide

Re: [exim] question regarding spamassassin in exim, especially headers

2011-07-14 Thread David Mathog
Phil Pennock wrote: SpamAssassin's added headers rely upon the message itself being transported through SA, modified by it, before delivery. By contrast, Exim is asking spamd to take a look at the message and report back on it; spamd doesn't get to modify the message at all. OK. Based

Re: [exim] question regarding spamassassin in exim, especially headers

2011-07-14 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-07-14 at 08:54 -0700, David Mathog wrote: I don't have a grasp on the relative benefits of doing the spam checking in these two different ways, beyond the observation that the sa-exim one ends up with the headers spamassassin is configured to add. Since there is usually no free lunch,