On 12 Dec 2019, at 11:36, sebb wrote:
Please don't ever use HTML for announce mails.
One might as well say "Please don't ever top-post."
Kevin's announcement message was multipart/alternative with a text/plain
part first. As superfluous as the text/html part was, this style of mail
is the default format generated by the MUAs used by the vast majority of
users.
They are more likely to be treated as spam -- as this one was
If you are using SpamAssassin and don't locally rescore HTML_MESSAGE or
make it a sub-rule of a meta-rule with a significant score, that is
simply not true. Using the default SA ruleset & scores, that message
scored -6.0, i.e. definitely not spam.
If you are using some other spam detection tool which considers the mere
existence of a text/html part in a multipart/alternative message to be a
significant indicator of spam, that bug should be discussed with that
broken tool's developer(s).
If you simply have made a personal decision to treat such mail as spam,
as it is absolutely your right to decide, you should be reconciled by
now to the fact that a lot of legitimate mail sent by people who will
never switch to sending pure text/plain mail is misidentified by your
chosen configuration.
-- and so may
be overlooked by the moderators.
This mailing list is not moderated.
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Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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