Re: Spamcop failing to detect true originating IP

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:22:40 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:

> N. Miller wrote:
>> One of my mail providers uses SpamAssassin, and
>> made a change in the manner of SA's operation which broke the
>> headers; I believe by adding an unexpected, and non-RFC-compliant
>> space. When it wrapped in my MTA, the result was a blank line,
>> denoting the end of the headers, and my MTA added its two cents worth
>> before putting the email in the mailbox. The result was "headers in
>> the body", or something like that.
> 
> When we talk about a header, it might seem like it is sufficient to
> 'describe' the headers in some way which we feel like characterizes the
> issue;  but nothing characterizes an issue about a specific header
> related discussion as much as access to the 'real' headers themselves,
> instead of an inadequately described generi-cized description of what
> the poster is talking about.

Well, duh. If I wasn't just using an anecdote to support a contention that
the mail server configuration seems to have been hosed; if I was really
concerned about what had happened, I would have dug up the old message
(several months ago; possibly last year even) and done just that. All I was
trying to do was suggest that the OP has a local server configuration issue
which needed investigating.

As events transpired, it is a local sever issue, but it isn't an SA issue.

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