linus larsson wrote:

>>> I noticed a lot of spams have the header "Mime-Version: *.*" missing
>>> Maybe it should be rated.

Theo Van Dinter wrote:

>> Mime-Version isn't a required header, so I'm not surprised to find
>> lots of mails without it.

Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The thing to check for is the combination of the presence of
> Content-Disposition or Content-Transfer-Encoding _with_ the absence of
> Mime-Version.  Mime-Version _is_ a required header for MIME-formatted
> messages.

Hmm... it seems like a promising area and I tried some of the above
ideas, but only one worthwhile version so far.

OVERALL%   SPAM% NONSPAM%     S/O    RANK   SCORE  NAME
  12603     4910     7693    0.390   0.00    0.00  (all messages)
100.000  38.9590  61.0410    0.390   0.00    0.00  (all messages as %)
  2.174   5.4786   0.0650    0.988   0.91    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_ODD
  2.539   5.8045   0.4550    0.927   0.75    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_LONER
  4.523   9.8167   1.1439    0.896   0.68    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_CTYPE
  4.523   9.8167   1.1439    0.896   0.68    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_ANY
  2.349   4.3381   1.0789    0.801   0.48    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_CTE
  2.349   4.3381   1.0789    0.801   0.48    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_CD_OR_CTE
  2.349   4.3381   1.0789    0.801   0.48    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_TWO
  0.000   0.0000   0.0000    0.500   0.12    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_ALL
  0.000   0.0000   0.0000    0.500   0.12    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_CD
  0.000   0.0000   0.0000    0.500   0.12    0.01  T_MIME_NO_VERSION_CD_AND_CTE

Some other combinations might be worth testing.  It's now in CVS for
other people to test.

> A separate rule might test for Content-Type without Mime-Version but
> there are some broken MUAs that do that, so it wouldn't be as good an
> indicator.  Perhaps combined with some of the USER_AGENT tests ...

Yeech.  Exempting broken MUAs is getting old.  *sigh*

-- 
Daniel Quinlan                      Linux, open source, and
http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/    anti-spam consulting


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in
Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be
fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com
_______________________________________________
Spamassassin-talk mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Reply via email to