not scanning outgoing email

David Lancaster dml at UNB.CA
Tue Jun 25 15:19:21 IST 2002


According to /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf on my system
score CTYPE_JUST_HTML                3.154

D.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Rose, Bobby wrote:

> According to the list of tests posted on SA's site, here's what these
> tests are
>
> header  HTML-only mail, with no text version  CTYPE_JUST_HTML  1.665
> rawbody  Includes a URL link to send an email  MAILTO_LINK  0.782
> header  Subject is all capitals  SUBJ_ALL_CAPS  -0.054
>
> Now the weird part is that this doesn't add up to 5.1.  If you have the
> SpamAction set to the spam.actions.conf, I suggest having an entry to
> store spam for your address to capture some.  The run spamassassin -t <
> filename to see if the score is the same.  If the scoring is still the
> same then post your findings to SA.  If not post them here.  Also if you
> have compileNow() enabled, try disabling it since there used to be a bug
> where it would cause false positives.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Boyce [mailto:shawn at QCOMINC.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:17 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: not scanning outgoing email
>
>
> Here's another one. The problem is usually the person is using HTML
> content in their email. The subject was all caps (but only two letters)
> and contained only HTML content.
>
> >To: Shawn Boyce <shawn at qcominc.com>
> >Subject: {SPAM?} JS...
> >Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> >X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (score=5.1, required 5,
> MAILTO_LINK,
> >       CTYPE_JUST_HTML, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS)
> >X-UIDL: Y;`"!l09"!:+_"!?WG!!
> >Status: U
> >
> ><html>
> ><head>
> ></head>
> ><body>
> >One other thing you can do in the page... &nbsp;In the body of the
> >page, you can add this:<br> <br>
> >&lt;NOSCRIPT&gt;<br>
> >Please enable JavaScript.<br>
> >&lt;/NOSCRIPT&gt;<br>
> ><br>
> >To warn people who don't have it enabled. &nbsp;<br>
> ><pre class="moz-signature" cols="$mailwrapcol">--
> >Bryan E. Sampieri
> >Sofware Developer, QCOM, Inc.
> ><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
> href="mailto:bryans at qcominc.com">bryans at qcominc.com</a>
> >
> >Any opinions are not necessarily the opinions of QCOM, Inc. </pre>
> ></body>
> ></html>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Shawn Boyce wrote:
>
> > Gerry Doris wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm having trouble with our outgoing email being tagged
> >>> as SPAM!
> >>>
> >>> How do I configure mailscanner to not scan outgoing email using
> >>> spamassassin? I still want outgoing email scanned for viruses. I
> >>> didn't see anything in the FAQ.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Shawn Boyce
> >>> QCOM, Inc.
> >>> Quality Software is Our Business
> >>> http://www.qcominc.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why does spamassassin think your mail is spam?  If it thinks you're
> >> sending spam then won't all the rest of us think you're sending it
> >> too?
> >>
> >>
> > Good point. Luckily not everyone is using SpamAssassin yet!
> >
> > Here is the mail header on an email in which I replied to someone else
>
> > in our company. The email was actually a reply to email which
> > contained a forwared email in it.
> >
> > X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: SpamAssassin (score=5.3, required 5,
> > MAILTO_LINK, BIG_FONT, CTYPE_JUST_HTML)
> >
> > Besides this one, I've also seen some other company emails being
> > marked as SPAM.
> >
> >> Gerry
> >> --
> >> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Shawn Boyce
> > QCOM, Inc.
> > Quality Software is Our Business
> > http://www.qcominc.com
> >
> >
>
> --
> Shawn Boyce
> QCOM, Inc.
> Quality Software is Our Business
> http://www.qcominc.com
>



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David Lancaster
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