false positive?

Damien McKenna damien at MC-KENNA.COM
Wed Aug 13 15:33:51 IST 2003


On Tuesday 12 August 2003 11:16 am, mikea wrote:
> header RCVD_FAKE_HELO_DOTCOM    Received =~ /^from (?:msn|yahoo|
>    yourwebsite|lycos|excite|cs|aol|localhost|koreanmail|allexecs|
>    mydomain|juno|eudoramail|compuserve|desertmail|excite|caramail)
>    \.com \(/m
> describe RCVD_FAKE_HELO_DOTCOM  Received contains a faked HELO hostname

One way to work around this "problem" would be to manually assign a lower
score for this flag.  I changed some of the default scores to higher ratings,
eg for the 411 scam, etc, that way "real" spam gets a really high score while
might-be-spam gets a mediocre score.
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Damien McKenna  damien at mc-kenna.com  http://mc-kenna.com/



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