[Mailman-Users] Spam filtering before distribution...

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:34:14AM -0800, Luke Middle wrote:

> Hi All, I have been following some different discussions about removing 
> spam from mailinglists.  It seems like adding a bouncer to the 
> "X-Spam=yes" header was an option.  However this assumes that the 
> message has already been tagged by spamassassin.  What I would like to 
> do is have the pipeline of SpamAssassin.pyc operational.  I was able to 
> get it installed fine and there are no errors generated when mail is 
> sent.  However, once mail is sent to a list it does not have any of the 
> normal spamd headers attached.  This is indicating to me that it is not 
> going to spamd and running.  Has anybody run into a similar problem or 
> have any idea what might be happening?
 
The SpamAssassin handler does not pass on the spamd-rewritten version
of the message; it passes on the original message text.

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