Bug#774553: exim4: Do not scan outgoing mail for spam

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Andreas,

On Sunday 04 January 2015 12:39:46 Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2015-01-04 Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de> wrote:
> > Package: exim4
> > Version: 4.84-6
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > I am running exim since a few years and scanned incoming and
> > outgoing mails for spam, where outgoing does not make a lot of sense
> > or even hurts.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I tend to disagree here. - Scanning outgoing mails to avoid spreading
> viruses sent by infectected users makes sense.

Scanning does not hurt, but having the X-Spam-Report line 

X-Spam_report: $spam_report

in outgoing mails made the Debian mailserver classifying my mail to a Debian mailing 
list as spam:

Jan  3 21:34:21 s_local at bendel amavis[17115]: (17115-41) Passed BAD-HEADER-4
{RelayedInbound,Quarantined}, pb_en-ht [79.209.215.172] <ml at bokomoko.de[1]> -
>
<lists-debian-kde at bendel.debian.org[2]>, quarantine: m/badh-m89awh4uBlcw,
Message-ID: <2158424.WclWlOo0ND at blackbox>, mail_id: m89awh4uBlcw, Hits: -7.1,
size: 3331, queued_as: 0567AD2, Subject: "outbox disappeared", From:
Rainer_Dorsch_<ml at bokomoko.de[1]>, User-Agent:
KMail/4.14.1_(Linux/3.16.0-4-686-pae;_KDE/4.14.2;_i686;_;_), helo=, Tests:
[BAYES_00=-2,DKIM_SIGNED=0.1,DKIM_VALID=-0.1,DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1,LDO_WHITE
LIST=-5],
autolearn=ham, autolearnscore=-5.1, languages=en, 6518 ms 
X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Improper folded header field made up
    entirely of whitespace (char 20 hex): X-Spam-Report: ...that system
    for details.\n \n Content previ[...] 

>From postmaster at debian.org: Because its header is broken. X-Spam-Report really 
does not belong into outgoing mails.

Thanks,
Rainer

-- 
Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/

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[2] mailto:lists-debian-kde at bendel.debian.org
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