Ted Cooper wrote: > I've been adding extra headers to incoming emails detailing everything > from source port range to the passive OS fingerprint in hopes that the > bayes database or my rules will pick them up and assign additional (or > reduced!) spam scores for them. > > I haven't had the chance to truly experiment and see if it is helping or > not, but something just occurred to me (at 3am as I was going to bed). > > Do the headers I add with "add_header" actually get placed into the > message which is passed to SpamAssassin and thus are available to learn > and score, or are they only added during delivery in the transport? > > If not, how on earth would I pass such information to SA so it can be of > use? I am currently calling SA in the acl_smtp_data ACL. > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECTaddheadacl > From what I read in the above section, I can only guess that if I add > headers in the MAIL, RCPT and pre-DATA ACL, they _may_ be available in > the message sent to SA. Has anyone played with this at all?
Ok, so I had a few minutes spare to check this out .. adding a header during the RCPT stage doesn't seem to make it turn up in the DATA stage. Does anyone have an idea or way I can pass additional headers to SA without putting it through a pipe transport? Ted -- The Exim Manual http://www.exim.org/docs.html http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
