[SPAM] Spamassassin trigger?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Mike Klinke um 15:35:
> On Thursday 08 January 2004 06:34, WA9ALS - John wrote:
> > Spamassassin trigger?Ended up in my spam folder:
> 
> Your new test ended up in my spamassassin "SPAM" folder here. I've 
> included your message's header as received here:
>  
> 
> Message-ID: <003a01c3d5e3$c8f99c40$a7814094 at wa9als>
> From: "WA9ALS - John" <ham_reflectors at wa9als.com>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> References: 
> <F8D98AA74B5C8A4DA9E09AE6483832D0069B383F at TXS13418.txfb-ins.com>
> Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: [SPAM] Spamassassin trigger?
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>   boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0037_01C3D5B9.D781F430"
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
> X-loop: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Sender: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> Errors-To: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> X-BeenThere: fedora-list at redhat.com
> X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13
> Precedence: junk
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> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:34:25 -0500
> X-Spam-Flag: YES
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.0 required=3.5

Though the mail get some SPAM points, a required value of 3.5 generated
definately too much false positives. Just have a look at the statistics
at spamassassin.org. If you trigger for such low values no wonder you
get many mails as SPAM detected.

> 	tests=BAYES_30,HTML_30_40,REFERENCES,TRACKER_ID,X_LOOP
> 	version=2.55
> X-Spam-Report:   ---- Start SpamAssassin results
>   4.00 points, 3.5 required;
>   *  0.0 -- Has a X-Loop header
>   * -0.0 -- Has a valid-looking References header
>   *  4.3 -- BODY: Incorporates a tracking ID number
>   *  0.6 -- BODY: Message is 30% to 40% HTML
>   * -0.9 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 30 to 
> 40%
>   [score: 0.3824]
>   ---- End of SpamAssassin results
> X-Spam-Level: HHHH
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)

SpamAssassin 2.55 is way old. Version 2.60 or better actual 2.61 do
produce better recognition rates.

> X-UIDL: ~V@!!CA"#!RMN!!7%#"!
> Status: R 
> X-Status: N
> X-KMail-EncryptionState:  
> X-KMail-SignatureState:  

[ snipped rest of it ]

Alexander


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