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Re: BUG : all messages rule RP_8BIT

From: jdow <jdow_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Mar 23 2011 - 03:42:47 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org

On 2011/03/22 14:48, Lawrence @ Rogers wrote:
> On 22/03/2011 7:02 PM, Bagnoud Thierry [ezwww.ch] wrote:
>>
>> until 21 mars 2011 after the normal cron.daily/update_spamassassin,
>> Spamassassin report all messages with the rule RP_8BIT
>>
>> header RP_8BIT Return-Path:raw =~ /[^\000-\177]/
>> describe RP_8BIT Return-Path contains 8-bit characters with high bit on
>> score RP_8BIT 2.8
>>
>> Thanks to correct this rule.
>>
>> Thierry Bagnoud
> I looked through our mail logs and don't see any such hits on our e-mail. If
> all of your e-mail is hitting this rule, I would think something before
> SpamAssassin is messing up the Return-Path (perhaps another scanner or MTA)

He is in Switzerland and is probably using character sets that do have
the 8 bit rule violated. He probably needs to set the score for RP_8BIT
to zero in a local rule file 99_local.cf. (So named so that it processes
last over all other rules. He can put other local optimzations there,
too.)

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