[SA-exim] Mailman sa-exim Question

Marc MERLIN marc at merlins.org
Fri Aug 8 10:06:00 PDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:10:40AM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
> <quote who=Sander Smeenk date=[030808 09:07]/>
> 
> > To my best knowledge, the message was dropped at this stage and never
> > reached the delivery process of your exim. 
> 
>     I did some more digging and it appears that because I had the
> spamassassin mailman Handler enabled, that patch was kicking in before
> sa-exim.
 
That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless your routing is such that somehow
mailman sees the spam before exim. 
In normal configurations, exim should get the mail first, reject it, and
mailman would never see it.
 
>   So, my running theory is that the mailman/spamassassin Handler kicks
> in before sa-exim can.
> 
>    Makes sense?

No :-)

Marc
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