Missing subjects on 3.0x

[Rick Beebe <ri...@yale.edu>]

Recently upgraded from 2.63 to 3.0.1 and there's a behavior change I 
don't see documented. When spam comes in without a subject header, and 
the user has requested subject tagging, SA no longer adds one to put the 
tag in. Is this a bug or feature? Is there a way to get the old behavior 
back?

Note that I'm not confused about the change from rewrite_subect to 
rewrite_header. Spam with existing Subject lines get tagged fine.

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Re: Missing subjects on 3.0x

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

At 10:36 AM 11/3/2004, Rick Beebe wrote:
>Recently upgraded from 2.63 to 3.0.1 and there's a behavior change I don't 
>see documented. When spam comes in without a subject header, and the user 
>has requested subject tagging, SA no longer adds one to put the tag in. Is 
>this a bug or feature? Is there a way to get the old behavior back?

Sounds like a bug, not a feature.

In fact, it is:
http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3816

Looks like there's some hesitance to add a missing Subject: header, because 
it breaks markup removal when making a pristine message for reporting. 
However, they are working on it.


>Note that I'm not confused about the change from rewrite_subect to 
>rewrite_header. Spam with existing Subject lines get tagged fine.

It's just a syntax change in order to make things more flexible.. 
rewrite_subject no longer exists in SA 3.0, and as such is now completely 
invalid. subject_tag is gone too. If they exist in your config, remove them.

rewrite_header replaces rewrite_subject, but is more flexible, allowing you 
to rewrite the subject, from, or to headers with a tag.


SA 2.6 syntax:
         subject_tag *SPAM*
         rewrite_subject 1

SA 3.0 syntax:
         rewrite_header Subject *SPAM*

These two work the same, but rewrite_header is a bit more general and 
flexible than the old setup. You can now do things like:

         rewrite_header From spammer

which will make the From line look like:

         From: Joe <so...@example.com> (spammer)