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Allow spamassassin to return DENYSOFT on errors/timeouts #2967

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Changes proposed in this pull request:

  • Allow spamassassin to return DENYSOFT on connection errors, connection timeouts, and scan timeouts
  • New configuration options added for each scenario, defaulting to false (honoring existing behavior)

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  • docs updated
  • tests updated
  • Changes updated

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Any interest in this one, yet? It looks like it would also incidentally address #2939.

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Sorry, I should have replied earlier. The thing I don't like is that the config option is reject but the action is a deferral. Other plugins (spf, avg) use the keyword defer for this purpose.

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I didn't love the naming convention I proposed either, but I was paralleling the ClamAV plugin. I can change to the defer nomenclature if you'd prefer.

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I was paralleling the ClamAV plugin. I can change to the defer nomenclature if you'd prefer.

In the clamav plugin, reject.virus returns a DENY (5NN), and sometimes reject.error returns a DENY and other times a DENYSOFT (4NN) error. So, the usage in clamav plugin is inconsistent. We want to avoid POLA violations so if the knob results in a deferral, then it should be named as such.

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The other issue is the log messages like this, "Spam scan error". That's not super helpful when a DSN gets forwarded to the email admin and they're running spamassassin, rspamd, and/or another filtering engine. Better to put something explicit and unique to spamassassin in there, such as: spamd, sa, or spamassassin.

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