your best bet is to just post a sample message and your configuration ;)

--j.

Steve [Spamassassin] writes:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > 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
> >   
> That lot look far more sensible... I don't get MY_SERVERS_FOUND... and I 
> think I should for a mail I send to an invalid email address which 
> generates the bounce.
> >> 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.
> >   
> I wasn't as clear as I could have been...  mail.mydomain.com is my SMTP 
> server... and the "Received:" line above is included in the bounce 
> message body... just as I would expect.  My problem appears to be that 
> my own bounce messages aren't white-listed (to be marked with 
> MY_SERVERS_FOUND) in spite of having:
> 
>     whitelist_bounce_relays mail.mydomain.com
> 
> in my local.cf; having verified the configuration syntax with 
> "spamassassin --lint" and having re-started spamd...
> 
> hmmm....  Is the problem that the bounce message I receive is a 
> multi-part mime message (with a copy of the mail I sent in the final 
> part) or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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