A lot of spam getting through

Billy A. Pumphrey bpumphrey at woodmclaw.com
Wed May 2 17:24:07 IST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Anthony Peacock
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:53 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: A lot of spam getting through
> So, help us out and show us the scores and headers from one that does
> get through.  We might be able to see where they are failing then.
> 
> Even better...  Save one of the misdiagnosed emails as a text file,
post
> it to a web address and let us know.  We can then run that email
through
> our systems and tell you what scores we get and what rules helped.
> 

I am having trouble getting the testing to work, or knowing how to test
it.  I have saved some messages from Oulook with the extension of .msg.
When I run a spamassassin -t message.msg it returns a bunch of junk and
then the score:

Content analysis details:   (51.5 points, 5.0 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ----------------------
--------------------------------------------------
-0.0 NO_RELAYS              Informational: message was not relayed via
SMTP
 2.5 MISSING_HB_SEP         Missing blank line between message header
and body
 2.3 MANGLED_DOSE           BODY: mangled dose
 2.3 MANGLED_OFF            BODY: mangled off
 2.3 MANGLED_YOUR           BODY: mangled your
 2.3 MANGLED_FORM           BODY: mangled form
 2.3 MANGLED_HERE           BODY: mangled here
 2.3 MANGLED_HALF           BODY: mangled half
 2.3 MANGLED_TIME           BODY: mangled time
 2.3 MANGLED_MEDS           BODY: mangled med(s)
 2.3 MANGLED_GIRL           BODY: mangled girl(s)
 2.3 MANGLED_FROM           BODY: mangled from
 2.3 MANGLED_LOVE           BODY: mangled love
 2.3 MANGLED_TEXT           BODY: mangled text
 2.3 MANGLED_LOOK           BODY: mangled look(s)
 2.3 MANGLED_SPAM           BODY: mangled spam
 2.3 MANGLED_PRIOR          BODY: mangled prior
 2.3 MANGLED_PLEASE         BODY: mangled please
 2.3 MANGLED_TRNFER         BODY: mangled TRANSFER
 2.3 MANGLED_TOOL           BODY: mangled tool
 3.5 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to
100%
                            [score: 1.0000]
 2.2 NULL_IN_BODY           FULL: Message has NUL (ASCII 0) byte in
message
 1.8 MISSING_SUBJECT        Missing Subject: header
 0.0 UPPERCASE_25_50        message body is 25-50% uppercase
 0.1 TO_CC_NONE             No To: or Cc: header
-0.0 NO_RECEIVED            Informational: message has no Received
headers

(then some more junk)
[root at WoodenMS2 spamemail]#
PuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPu
TTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTT
YPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPuTTYPu


Does the testing support .msg files?  Also what is the best way to
convert the email to text and have it correct?


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