On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:19 -0400, Jeff Koch wrote: > Maybe I'm doing something wrong but the bounces we receive are getting > extremely low scores. My understanding was that by enabling VBounce in the > V3.2.4 config's and by adding: > > whitelist_bounce_relays mailserver_name.com > > we would have a shot at filtering out bounces. Instead we are seeing very > low bounces scores:
The goal of VBounce is to *identify* and spot backscatter, not to flag it as spam. Actually, IIRC it's stated intention is, to treat back- scatter differently from spam, because (strictly) it is not. > * 0.1 BOUNCE_MESSAGE MTA bounce message > * 0.1 ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE Message is some kind of bounce message > > A scoring of 0.2 does little. Here's the full header. If anyone can help > explain what we're doing wrong or should change I'd appreciate it. $ grep -A 2 procmail /usr/share/spamassassin/20_vbounce.cf # If you use this, set up procmail or your mail app to spot the # "ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE" rule hits in the X-Spam-Status line, and move # messages that match that to a 'vbounce' folder. guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}