Report_safe option in SpamAssassin

[Bachelot]

I thought that if i set report_safe option as 1 then an incoming message would be tagged as a spam and it will not be modified an original message as a message/rfc822 MIME part. I have set it to the 1 in both /usr/share/spamassassin/10_default_prefs.cf as well as in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. but the problem is that the spam emails are still arriving with X-Spam headers added. Now what should i do to make this work as per the manual says?

[ZeDaX]

Spamassassin uses numbers tests (both local and on line) to determine if a mail is SPAM or HAM (not SPAM). It's reliable, trustworthy, and simple to install and configure. And in this article I am going to show you how to add Spamassassin to your already working Postfix mail server. You can think of SPAM as all of those useless flyers you get in the mail. The advertisements, the offers for credit cards etc.

[Eric B]

If using report_safe, a few of the headers from the original message are copied into the wrapper header (From, To, Cc, Subject, Date, etc.) If you want to have other headers copied as well, you can add them using this option. You can specify multiple headers on the same line, separated by spaces, or you can just use multiple lines.

[JonathanD]

When ACL method is providing the best performance then as an administrator, You can switch to an Exim MTA configuration in order to use the legacy transport-based SpamAssassin message which would be handled by accessing the WHM from the following path.
Start WHM and open Main menu then go to the Service Configuration. Here you can go for the Exim Configuration Editor and then open Standard Options where you must be having a SpamAssassin Options.

[Raine]

This line will define how Spamassassin will handle any message marked as SPAM. If you set this line to:
report_safe 0 : all incoming SPAM is modified by altering the header to mark said email as SPAM.
report_safe 1 : all incoming messages tagged as SPAM will create a new report message and attach the original message as a message/rfc822 MIME (preserving the original message, but not easily opened).
report_safe 2 : all incoming messages tagged as SPAM will be attached to a new report as plain text.
A message marked as SPAM will not be deleted. Instead a message marked as SPAM will be labeled as such and allowed through. This further prevents false positives and allows the user to define what to do with SPAM in their email client.

[ThoMas321]

SpamAssassin moves an original message to an attachment by default which saves it by running any dangerous scripts which might infects your system and and it becomes easy for user an identifying the message whether it is spam or not. For controlling this option, you can use report_safe which has three options described here:
report_safe 0 which does not uses any Attachments.
report_safe 1 which uses an Attachments.
report_safe 2 which only uses Text Attachments.