Re: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

[ha...@t-online.de]

>> 
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I've a mail system running Cyrus+Postfix+Amavisd-new+ClamAV+Spamassassin =
>> on SuSE Linux Ent. Server 9.
>> 
>> The problem is that non-encoded 8bit data is not allowed in message =
>> headers and Cyrus-IMAPd prevents from any problem by replacing those =
>> chars with X (mail program should do encoding according to RFC 2047 on =
>> all headers. Unencoded 8-bit characters aren't allowed in headers).=20
>> 
>> In SuSE's distribution there is no munge8bit option for Cyrus (which =
>> would leave the problematic subject as is but damage the search =
>> function) so all Subjects in Hebrew/Russian/Etc. sent form =
>> Hotmail,Yahoo,... clients arriving to users mailboxes changed to XXX.
>> 
>> I have BAYES and RAZOR filters installed.
>> 
>> Here are some headers from one of such mails:
>> Subject: FW: XXX XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX
>> X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=3D6.8 tag1=3D-999.0 tag2=3D5.0 kill=3D5.0
>>  tests=3DFROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART,
>>  MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER, SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS
>> X-Spam-Level: ******
>> 
>> So it seems to me that this high score is due to XXX (or unencoded =
>> subjects) in the Subject header.
>> 
>> Is there any way to tell Spamassassin to not check in 'Subject' header?
>> 
>> 
>> Please Help.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Leon Kolchinsky
>> 
>> 
Hi,

unless you have a very unusual mail flow, cyrus changes the foreign chatacters to X after
SA has checked the message

Wolfgang Hamann