Broken messge id cause spam to be ignored?

[Iain McWilliams]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of David Höhn
> Sent: 01 March 2004 06:56
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Broken messge id cause spam to be ignored?
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> Iain McWilliams wrote:
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> | HI,
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> | Running Mailscanner with Postfix and spamassassin, everything working
> | well but some spam appears to be slipping through the net. The strange
> | thing is they all have the same broken message id. Could the spammers
> | have found a loophole?
> |
> |
> <snip>
> 
> Just on a sidenote, but why does your MTA accept messages that have an
> obviously broken Message-ID ?
> Or is that not so obvious?

No idea, I imagine it's trying to be helpful! :-)

Regards,
Iain