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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 little@cs.ucsd.edu wrote:

> We have several mail servers for our domain. We have spamassassin
> running globally on each, tagging the mail before delivery.
>
> The problem is this: sometimes mail needs to go from one server to
> another before delivery. And sometimes, even though the mail
> scored as spam on the first server, it no longer scores as spam
> at the second server. In one case at least, I believe this is
> because the FORGED_RCVD_NET_HELO rule fired on the first server
> but not the second.
>
> Is there an easy way around this? Or is milter-hacking (or changing
> mail topology) in our future?

Yes, you want to avoid "refiltering" messages. I ended up customizing
our config to say "if there's a locally added SA score header already
there skip the checking of the current message" (via milter-hacking ;)

It also helps to keep your load-ave from going ballistic when some
fool who has mailboxes in two different departments creats a '.forward'
loop. ;)

I also set up a rule to say "messages from 'internal servers' don't
need to be filtered". This takes care of messages from cron jobs, etc.


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