http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4728
Summary: DUL rules should use -firsttrusted not -notfirsthop
Product: Spamassassin
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: Rules
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/75005
On 08/12/2005 3:52 PM, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
>>That's not what the rule is looking for (the last hop).
>>
>>The rule will lookup any hop that is NOT the FIRST hop. Since the mail
>>first passes through a proxy (the hop we don't check as long as there
>>are other external hops) and then passes through another hop (that we do
>>check) the rule is firing since that second hop is listed.
>>
>
>
> Comment for correctness:
>
> Technically, the "notfirsthop" is a misnomer, and a carry over from really old
> versions of spamassassin. In really old versions, it really worked this way.
> SA
> Checked every IP except the first hop.
>
> However, SA stopped doing that a long time ago. The implementation of this in
> SA
> 2.60 and higher is actually "first untrusted host delivering mail to a trusted
> host". The "notfirsthop" name remains in the rules, but it's an artifact, and
> is
> not really implemented this way.
3.x reverted to the old way. Try it out.
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