Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-17 Thread Grant Taylor via users
On 11/17/22 9:00 AM, Bill Cole wrote: Easier said than done. It's actually quite easy to do. But most people don't want to do what I think should be done. IMHO, the email list itself is a 1st class / proper entity that you are emailing or reading email from. -- I'm not emailing Bill or G

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-11-16 at 06:46:57 UTC-0500 (Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:46:57 -0500) Greg Troxel is rumored to have said: > Not really this topic, but I think mailing lists really need to be set > up to not break DKIM. Easier said than done. I'm on an absurd number of mailing lists, and MOST are not entirely D

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-11-15 at 15:16:49 UTC-0500 (Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:16:49 +) Marc is rumored to have said: >> You might want to point out to them that rewrite_header breaks any DKIM >> signature on mail, > > Hmmm, good point, not really thought about this even. Are email clients > complaining about this

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-11-15 at 21:45:52 UTC-0500 (Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:45:52 -0800) Loren Wilton is rumored to have said: >> So the alternative is adding a header and move it to the spam folder >> automatically on the basis of the header? >> >> Currently I just want to 'warn' users that the message is possible

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-11-16 at 08:01:12 UTC-0500 (Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:01:12 -0700) Grant Taylor via users is rumored to have said: > Or said another way, DKIM is only supposed to be a /positive/ /assertion/ if > / when a DKIM signature validation passes. DKIM is supposed to not be > negative. That's ABSOLUT

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-16 Thread Grant Taylor via users
On 11/16/22 4:46 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Can you expand on that? I'll try. My understanding is that few MUAs test DKIM signatures /client/ /side/. -- The only exception that I'm aware of is that there was a Thunderbird add-on that would test DKIM signatures /client/ /side/. Almost all DKIM

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
Greg Troxel writes: > I did just get a bounce message in reply to a message I sent here, > complaining that my message failed DKIM (maybe the list munged it) and > SPF (ok; the list is not in general authorized to send mail from my > domain) and therefore was being rejected (but I do not current

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-16 Thread Greg Troxel
"Grant Taylor via users" writes: > On 11/15/22 1:16 PM, Marc wrote: >> Hmmm, good point, not really thought about this even. Are email >> clients complaining about this? > > Few email clients are testing DKIM. Some servers are testing > DKIM. Some systems are mis-treating DKIM failure as someth

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Shawn Iverson
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 9:46 PM Loren Wilton wrote: > > If SA sees the message and classifies it as spam, it normally adds (from > an > example) > X-Spam-Flag: YES > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=8.2 required=5.0 > tests=BAYES_50=0.8,DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, > > It should be trivial

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Loren Wilton
So the alternative is adding a header and move it to the spam folder automatically on the basis of the header? Currently I just want to 'warn' users that the message is possible spam, they can decide to move such emails automatically to a spam folder by enabling a sieve rule. What would be an

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Grant Taylor via users
On 11/15/22 1:16 PM, Marc wrote: Hmmm, good point, not really thought about this even. Are email clients complaining about this? Few email clients are testing DKIM. Some servers are testing DKIM. Some systems are mis-treating DKIM failure as something more sever than the specification allows

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> You might want to point out to them that rewrite_header breaks any DKIM > signature on mail, Hmmm, good point, not really thought about this even. Are email clients complaining about this? > in addition to cluttering the Subject if > misclassified mail is part of a conversation. So the alte

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-11-15 at 05:04:08 UTC-0500 (Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:04:08 +) Marc is rumored to have said: > I am having repeated occurances of ***SPAM*** in the subject, maybe it is > good to stop adding ***SPAM*** if there are already 10 in the subject? That's an entirely local choice, controlled by

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Apache SpamAssassin it's both an API and a program. In my installation, I do not use it to do any subject modifications and I use a milter called mime defang to do that using my own logic. You can also configure spam d/Spam seed not to modify the subject. If you would like similar headings remove

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> > When a *user* replies it's not at the beginning > it's "Re: **spam**" :) Indeed, and in other languages it is even different, but I think developers get the point ;)

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> >> spamassassin add multiple times '**spam**' to the subject. > >> > >> your spamassassin only adds it one time > > > > Yes I know, and lazy users do not remove it in replies, that is how > you get multiple occurances > > than it's "Subject: **spam** Re: **spam**" and the only relevant > informa

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> >> > >> multiple signs of spam leading to marking a message as spam > > > > This is not relevant for the discussion on whether or not to have > spamassassin add multiple times '**spam**' to the subject. > > your spamassassin only adds it one time Yes I know, and lazy users do not remove it in r

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> > Am 15.11.22 um 11:48 schrieb Marc: > >> > >> and i told you that it's useful when a message already passed > multiple > >> hops which flagged it as spam to outright reject it > >> > >> /^Subject: .*\*\*\*\*\*spam\*\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*spam\*\*\*\*\*/ > REJECT > >> Administrative Prohibition (Sub

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> > and i told you that it's useful when a message already passed multiple > hops which flagged it as spam to outright reject it > > /^Subject: .*\*\*\*\*\*spam\*\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*spam\*\*\*\*\*/ REJECT > Administrative Prohibition (Subject) A message is either spam or not, and is marked as spa

RE: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Marc
> > > > I am having repeated occurances of ***SPAM*** in the subject, maybe it > is good to stop adding ***SPAM*** if there are already 10 in the > subject? > > ask the sending admin why in the world he still continues to blow out > that crap instead trash it > > if there are already two in the s