Hello List,

This fact could be interesting for everybody running xmail with older
verions of spamassassin (e.g. the default version of debian woody):

Some costumers complained that their messages received from xmail are
screwed up in the following way: nearly all headers are shown inside the
messages body and the header only contains the following two lines:

Return-Path: <$SENDER>
Delivered-To: $RCPT

After a longer investigation we discovered, that all those mails headers
contain a "From <SENDER> <DATE>" line like in unix-mbox format and some
mail-client (named in detail: ms-exchange-pop3-connector) interprets
this line as the first line of body (because it has not the "foo: bar"
format) and rewrites the whole email (the normal headers become part of
the html-body). 

This mbox-style-line in all mails headers comes out of spamds
commandline-option -F 0|1, which seems to be part in some versions of
spamassassin - spamds manpage says:

-F 0 | 1
   Ensure that the output email message either always starts with 
   a 'From ' line (1) for UNIX mbox format, or ensure that this 
   line is stripped from the output (0).  (default: 1)

-->> we addedd -F 0 to spamds init-script and now all mail isnt "screwed
up" anymore and everything is fine again.

The version of spamassassin which showed this behavior was:
spamassassin   2.20-1woody3 
(installed via $ apt-get install spamassassin)

Other of our servers running newer versions of spamassassin (e.g. 2.55)
dont even know this cmdline-option and dont add the line "From ..." to
the header.


Cheers,

Achim Schmidt


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