https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6645

--- Comment #5 from [email protected] 2011-08-06 17:37:30 UTC 
---
I think as qmail-scanner is inserted before qmail-queue it sees itself as part
of the qmail-system, which received the mail from an external client as it is
not locally generated, but it should add the right header (but I haven't read
into the source to find out whether it can detect the authentication or just
the IP from which the server got the mail).

Regarding your idea to fix the problem in the qmail-scanner sources, I have a
major point for you to consider:

* The problem becomes critical at the target using spamassassin because there
spamassassin penalty scores the mail (possibly causing it to be dropped), but
the admin of the target mail server has no direct possibility to fix the
problem on the relay, because it is not necessarily under his control. He can
only fix the problem caused when he is running qmail-scanner and mails from his
users are dropped somewhere else, he can't fix it on the relay but is blamed
for his server rejecting legitimate mails (and do you want to check lots of
possible communication partners servers whether they are running a non-fixed
qmail-scanner version and argue with their admins (having RBL-checking
disabled, claiming there is no problem)?)

In my opinion both ends should be fixed (spamassassin should have a workaround
for detecting the trust path of "broken" qmail-scanner servers) and future
qmail-scanner versions should either not insert this header or do it in the
right way.

-- 
Configure bugmail: 
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.

Reply via email to