[Mimedefang] Message not scanned by SpamAssassin...

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Fox, Randy wrote:

> I've had similar issues and have been trying to work around them.
> As I recall, if MIMEDefang sees the Xscanned-By header, it doesn't
> scan the messages again.

Yikes!  No no no!  MIMEDefang ALWAYS scans messages coming in via
SMTP, otherwise a trivial way around it would be to forge an X-Scanned-By:
header.

What happens is if there is *already* an X-Scanned-By: header with the
same version number, MD won't add another one.  If you want
reassurance that all messages are scanned on a particular host, add
this in filter_end:

sub filter_end {
	action_add_header("X-Scanned-On", "my-hostname-goes-here");
}

> That's fine for messages that get stuck in
> the queue and sendmail ends up processing multiple times before the
> destination server is finally back on line.

Queued messages are not rescanned because they don't come into
the machine via SMTP.  The rule is:

	Anything coming in via SMTP is scanned.

Regards,

David.