Steve [Spamassassin] writes:
> Larry Nedry wrote:
> > VBounce works very well for me.
> > <http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VBounceRuleset>
> Thanks for this pointer... I've taken a look at this and installed it on 
> my Spamassassin 3.1 configuration.  I am, however, bemused about a 
> couple of details...
> 
> I understand that this plugin introduces two new tags:
> 
> (a)   BOUNCE_MESSAGE
> (b)   ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE
> 
> I'm not clear what is the intended difference in their meaning.

There are several more; 

MY_SERVERS_FOUND: a whitelisted relay a la "whitelist_bounce_relays" was
found

BOUNCE_MESSAGE: an MTA-generated bounce, "message was undeliverable" etc.

CRBOUNCE_MESSAGE: Challenge-response bounce message, eg. "please confirm your 
message was not spam"

VBOUNCE_MESSAGE: a virus-scanner-generated bounce, e.g. "You sent a virus"

ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE: any of the *BOUNCE_MESSAGE types


> Having read about the whitelist_bounce_relays, I thought that looked very 
> neat... and I verified that every bounce message that I want to receive will 
> mention in the headers (ellipsis => something-or-other) :-
> 
>     Received:
> from ... (...) by mail.mydomain.com (Postfix)...
> 
> So, I configured whitelist_bounce_relays to mail.mydomain.com.  
> Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this has made no difference.  Both 
> bogus bounces and legitimate bounces (where I intentionally send a mail 
> message to a non-existent account on a remote server) are marked 
> identically with both BOUNCE_MESSAGE and ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE.... 
> Shouldn't the whitelisted bounce be marked differently?

This relay string should appear in the Received headers of the *bounced*
message, not of the *bounce* message.  in other words, the message
inside the bounce.  That's why you use it to list your own outbound MTAs.

--j.

> Still rather confused...
> 
> Steve

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