attachment spam action

Jim Davis jdavis at CS.ARIZONA.EDU
Wed Oct 26 20:31:05 IST 2005


On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Julian Field wrote:

> What exactly do you mean by "not actually seeing the spam body as an
> attachment"? What do you see?

The spam message body, inline.  Before, with the stock spamd/spamc setup,
I'd get something like

>Spam detection software, running on the system
[...]
>    [ Part 2: "original message before SpamAssassin" ]
[...]

Now I get something like
[...]
X-CS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=32.216, required 5,
	ADVANCE_FEE_1 0.00, ADVANCE_FEE_2 1.39, ADVANCE_FEE_3 3.34,
	ADVANCE_FEE_4 3.73, BAYES_99 3.50, DEAR_SOMETHING 2.10,
	DNS_FROM_RFC_BOGUSMX 1.94, DNS_FROM_RFC_DSN 2.60,
	DNS_FROM_RFC_POST 1.71, MISSING_MIMEOLE 1.61,
	RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 1.56, SARE_FRAUD_X3 1.67, SARE_FRAUD_X4 1.67,
	SARE_FRAUD_X5 1.67, SARE_FRAUD_X6 1.67, SARE_URGBIZ 0.72,
	SUBJ_ALL_CAPS 1.00, URG_BIZ 0.35)
X-Spam-Level: ********************************
X-Spam-Status: Yes
X-Spam-Flag: YES

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mrs Mariam Abacha the wife of Abacha, late Nigerian head of state-
[...]

So the headers I asked for are being inserted, but the spam message itself
appears inline, not as an attachment.

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