Bad headers not bouncing

[Mark Martinec]

Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
> I just set up amavisd 2.9.0 on a CentOS server running postfix 2.6.6.  
> For
> the most part things appear to be working properly, however I'm having 
> an
> issue where spams with a bad header are making it through.

We resolved this issue with Bruce offline,
the rest is mainly for the archive:


> All the spams in question have headers similar to this:
> 
> X-Quarantine-ID: <ML1NQ4CCLqQY>
> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at <mydomain>
> X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER SECTION, Missing required header field: 
> "Date"
> X-Spam-Flag: NO
> X-Spam-Score: 0
> X-Spam-Level:
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=x tagged_above=-9999 required=6.2 tests=[]
> 
> In my amavisd.conf file I have:
>   $final_bad_header_destiny = D_BOUNCE;
> Why are these spams being delivered and not bounced?  I must be
> missing something but I'm not sure what.

Turns out there is a bug in amavisd, which will be fixed in 2.9.1:

BUG FIXES
- when a $final_bad_header_destiny is set to D_BOUNCE and a mail
   message was a DSN or coming from a mailing list, spam checks were
   inappropriately skipped (logged as: "bypassing of spam checks,
   message will be blocked anyway", which was not true);


Mark