[SA-exim] return path not passed to spamassassin

Chris Purves chris at northfolk.ca
Wed Mar 22 18:02:31 PST 2006


Kristopher Austin wrote:

 >>Behalf Of Chris Purves
 >>I have had the problem that SPF checking does not work when 
 >>spamassassin
 >>is called from exim.  It works fine when running spamc after a message
 >>has been delivered.  I believe that I have tracked the problem down to
 >>the return path not being added to the headers by exim until after
 >>spamassassin is finished.
 >>
 >>It seems to me that this is something sa-exim should have configured
 >>automatically...of course it's just as likely something I should have
 >>configured but didn't.
 >>
 >>Please provide suggestions as to the best way to solve this.
 >>
> Chris,
> 
> I had this same problem and then noticed that SA-Exim adds
> X-SA-Exim-Mail-From header before SA sees it.
> 
> All I had to do was add
> 
> envelope_sender_header  X-SA-Exim-Mail-From
> 
> to my SA config file and everything started working as expected.  SPF
> works perfectly after adding that line to SA.
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
That's it!  Thanks a lot, Kris.

-- 
Good day, eh.
Chris




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