-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kristoffersen,
Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 8:00:07 AM, you wrote: K> Mails that I send from my two domains: kristoffersen.us and K> kristoffersen.no are automatically marked as spam by spamassassin. K> After investigating the issue further, when I discovered that a lot of K> my mails never got read or replied to, I found that the following rule K> is the one that triggers the problem; K> header From address is "at something-offers" FROM_OFFERS 4.300 K> 4.299 4.300 4.299 On a 5.0 threshold (or lower), that is an obvious problem. I've raised the FROM_OFFERS score to a flat 5.0 here, but that's out of a 9.0 threshold, so your emails would need an additional 4.0 spam points to get flagged here. K> So I am wondering if there will be a rewrite of this rule? - From later emails I've seen, apparently that has already been done, or at least is being done. False positives among rules of this kind are inevitable. The three solutions I know of are 1) Notify the development team, so they can improve the rules in later versions (via bugzilla is probably the best approach). 2) Sign up with a service like BondedSender.com or Habeas.com and balance out the "may be spam" score with a "almost definitely not spam" score. 3) Make sure emails from your domains are included in the primary corpus, so the score determination process run at the beginning of each version's official release does its best to avoid false positives from your domains. A fourth approach is to "register" your domains with a distributed whiltelist similar to William Stearns' blacklist at http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current -- that will need to be a whitelist which uses the whitelist_from_rcvd parameter, which then requires a reliable reverse DNS lookup, if I understand it correctly. That whitelist doesn't yet exist, but shouldn't be hard to put together, especially if it deals specifically with those domains like yours subject to problems with more general domain rules. Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBP2k6cZebK8E4qh1HEQLddgCdE0HaW91D18p2oeMZKYpOe/XyrjMAoKWS kDmV368aMoL9pDIlJyANpLlH =K/6V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
