Online Spam test dosen't work

[Julian Field]

At 20:30 25/03/2003, you wrote:
>Any Spamtestmails that i send by
>http://www.declude.com/tools/spamsend.html doesen't mark as spam
>(spamscore <1)!
>with mailscanner 3.27 and sa 2.50 any mails tagged as spam (spamscore >5)
>why?

Short answer is I don't know. I suggest you ask the SpamAssassin folks.
Simple things like bad dates shouldn't trigger spam traps on their own,
there are email apps out there in use that create badly formatted dates.
Using that alone as a trigger is very dangerous and will cause lots of
false alarms.

It appears that the declude folks have created a set of tests that exactly
match the few particular things they look for in messages. SpamAssassin is
a lot cleverer than that, it executes loads of tests and uses a scoring
system to calculate how likely the message is to be spam. It doesn't
trigger on 1 feature alone, unlike the declude product.

If you want to pay declude for an inferior product, feel free :-)




>SA version: 2.52
>MS version: 4.13-3
>
>
>Mail1:
>
>----------snip--------------
>
>Subject: BADHEADERS test file
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.4, required 5, AWL,
>        INVALID_DATE)
>
>This is a test message that was sent to you because you
>(or someone you know) visited our page at
>http://www.declude.com/tools .
>
>This is a sample E-mail designed to trigger spam tests.
>Depending on the software you use, it may or may not get
>marked as spam.  Visit http://www.declude.com for our
>Declude JunkMail solution for IMail servers.
>
>Test: BADHEADERS
>
>Description: This E-mail was sent with a bogus Date: header
>that will likely get caught by anti-spam software that
>analyzes the headers of the E-mail.  It should fail the
>Declude JunkMail BADHEADERS test.
>
>--------snip-----------------
>
>
>Mail2:
>--------snip-----------------
>
>Subject: SPAMHEADERS test file
>Message-Id: <E18xuxx-0003TQ-00 at onuris.berg21.ch>
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.1, required 5, AWL)
>
>This is a test message that was sent to you because you
>(or someone you know) visited our page at
>http://www.declude.com/tools .
>
>This is a sample E-mail designed to trigger spam tests.
>Depending on the software you use, it may or may not get
>marked as spam.  Visit http://www.declude.com for our
>Declude JunkMail solution for IMail servers.
>
>Test: SPAMHEADERS
>
>Description: This E-mail was sent with spam-like (but valid,
>RFC-compliant) headers, that may get caught by anti-spam
>software that analyzes the headers of the E-mail.  It should
>fail the Declude JunkMail SPAMHEADERS test.
>
>--------snip-----------------

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