SA Bugzilla – Bug 5688
vbounce mis-identifies mail generated from trac as a bounce
Last modified: 2022-03-06 16:47:44 UTC
Tony Lill writes: > Justin Mason wrote: > > Tony Lill writes: > > > >> Sometime after Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:27:02 -0000, spamassassin started > >> flagging the messages coming out of the mythtv svn system as bounce > >> messages, near as I can tell because svn was upgraded from > >> > >> X-Trac-Version: 0.11dev-r4937 > >> X-Mailer: Trac 0.11dev-r4937, by Edgewall Software > >> > >> to > >> > >> X-Trac-Version: 0.11dev-r6048 > >> X-Mailer: Trac 0.11dev-r6048, by Edgewall Software > >> > >> and started adding an > >> > >> Auto-Submitted: auto-generated > >> > >> header line. I'm sure I'm not the only person who's being bitten by > >> this. > >> > > > > It's the latter header that's causing the problem -- you have the > > anti-bounce ruleset activated, and that header is used by that > > ruleset as an indication of a bounce. > > > > --j. > > > I'm glad you agree that the vbounce ruleset is broken. According to the > draft: It goes both ways ;) Trac should not be using that header either, since arguably the update mail contains 'manually generated' text -- ie. code that a user has checked in. But anyway, please open a bug at our bugzilla. --j. > .2 Semantics > > > > This field indicates whether the message was sent with or > without explicit human control. > > The auto-generated keyword: > > SHOULD be used on messages generated by automatic (often > periodic) processes, > MUST NOT be used on manually generated messages, > MUST NOT be used on a message issued in direct response to > another message. > > The auto-replied keyword: > > SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another > message, > MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages, > MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or > periodic processes. > > > > > So only > > Auto-Submitted: auto-replied > > should be considered a bounce message.
Closing ancient stale bug.