RE: 8bit encoding in mail header by SpamAssassin

From: Michael Scheidell <scheidell(at)secnap.net>
Date: Sat Oct 13 2007 - 10:03:13 EDT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Ippich [mailto:lars.ippich@speicherplatz4you.de]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:05 PM
> To: Mark Martinec
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: 8bit encoding in mail header by SpamAssassin
> > This is not a default behaviour, normally such errors in header are
> > only flagged/logged as a warning, but a message is delivered
> > nevertheless. There is no particularly good reason to block such
> > messages, but you can if you want to.
(actually might be :-) depending on how old your amavisd-new was prior to update.
Real fix would be to block 8 bit headers in your mta and tell the sending system to stop phucking around with headers that they don't know anything about.

>
> I do not specifically want to block these messages, I would
> prefer a warning only policy. But I did not change any
> amavisd settings beside the normal configuration stuff. So do
> you know where these settings are done and where I can change them?
>

Look in ../etc/amavisd.conf* for $final_bad_header_destiny I suspect you want to set it to PASS?

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Received on Sat Oct 13 10:04:27 2007