Hi. On Sun 2003-02-02 at 11:36:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 02 February 2003 06:15 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: [...] > > Spamassassin thought so much of it that it routed the orig post to my > > Spam_Box. > > Hmm... doesn't like Hotmail, or has Spamassasin seen that 'handle' before? <g>
If you are really interested in it, my Spamassassin configuration said this: [...] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.43 (1.115.2.20-2002-10-15-exp) X-Spam-Report: Detailed Report SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (5.40 hits, 5 required) SPAM: X_LOOP (-0.2 points) Found a X-Loop header SPAM: NO_REAL_NAME (1.3 points) From: does not include a real name SPAM: HTML_70_90 (0.9 points) BODY: Message is 70-90% HTML tags SPAM: SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 (0.8 points) BODY: Spam phrases score is 02 to 03 (medium) SPAM: [score: 2] SPAM: HTML_FONT_FACE_ODD (0.3 points) BODY: HTML font face is not a commonly used face SPAM: LINES_OF_YELLING_2 (0.2 points) BODY: 2 WHOLE LINES OF YELLING DETECTED SPAM: LINES_OF_YELLING (0.2 points) BODY: A WHOLE LINE OF YELLING DETECTED SPAM: FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD (0.5 points) Forged hotmail.com 'Received:' header found SPAM: UPPERCASE_75_100 (1.4 points) message body is 75-100% uppercase SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- So it mainly got rated negatively for - not using a real name (1.3 points), - using an excessive amount of HTML (0.9 points; 151 lines HTML vs. 12 lines text, resp. 4400 vs. 430 bytes) and - all SHOUTING (1.8 points = 1.4+0.2+0.2) The things he could not do much about are - alleged spam phrases (0.9 points) and - stripped received headers by mailing list (0.5 points) [Hmmm. Thought I had already disabled this] Had he either not used Microsoft Office(!) for writing the mail, disabled his CAPSLOCK or simply configured his mailer correctly, the mail had not reached the level (5.0) for being considered unwanted mail. Considering the displayed ignorance resp. lack of common courtesy, I must admit, I am fine with Spamassassin's rating. Either way, if you want to be sure to not miss any "real" mail, you can simply increase the threshold a bit (7 should be fine, 10 is for the paranoids). Regards, Benjamin.
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