[Mimedefang] Help with header checking

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Thu Nov 26 13:28:31 EST 2020


On 11/26/20 6:47 PM, Bill Cole wrote:

> That Received header is added by Cyrus during delivery, so obviously 
> it's not present when MD sees the message.

Of course...




> That Received header is added by Sendmail *AFTER* all milters have done 
> their end-of-data work. It is not present when MD sees the message.

Oh!
That's the part I was missing and I think this answers my first question.
Thank you very much!




> A common reason for SA not being called by MD is a size limit. The 
> example mimedefang-filter script includes a limit that made more sense 
> 15 years ago than it does today, when spammers routinely send huge 
> garbage.

I had already rised this, so I don't think it's the reason.
I'll keep an eye on this anyway, as I had forgot about this limit and ut 
might have been hit in some other cases.
Thanks a lot again.



  bye
	av.



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