-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I just saw that a normal Ebay outbid notice hit two high-score rules. One > is from sare-spoof and I already contacted the maintainer. But one is in > the default 3.1.1 ruleset and I think this rule should get completely > removed or get a score of 0. It's > > 1.72 SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE Subject: MIME encoded twice > > From grepping the rules it does what it says: it checks if there are two > B/Q encoding identifiers in the subject. Why is this scoring with 1.72 or > at all? This is absolutely valid Q/B encoding and actually *required* by > RFC if your subject line is longer than 80 (or was it 72?) characters > (minus the encoding, so it's actually more like a 60 raw character limit). > This rule will hit on *lots* of non-ASCII mail and on almost all mail > coming from Ebay Germany. > > There are also the rules SUBJECT_EXCESS_QP and SUBJECT_EXCESS_BASE64 which > are "similar". QP scores 0 and BASE64 scores 0.449. This is much more > reasonable. > > Kai >
This utterly wreaks havoc on just about all Japanese email, so I dropped the score to nearly nothing. alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEPfgmE2gsBSKjZHQRAt82AKDAY4xTmST0kaY5cje1xH1ScDajOACg6fMH msifLKqJuv1IpudxbKGDcfQ= =ZDQE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
