Detecting forwarded spam

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Tue May 15 19:43:57 IST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info]On Behalf Of Randal,
> Phil
> Sent: 15 May 2007 18:50
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Detecting forwarded spam
>
>
> Great idea.
>
> Not!
>
> I'll just send you 100,000 spams with an "X-Spam-Report: IsSpam=yes"
> header.
>
> Just what you wanted?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil

It would only be a problem if IsSpam=no was used to bypass spamassassin and
deliver anyway.
Doing what the author asked would only allow people to abuse the system by
having all abusive email automatically classed as spam which is not an
issue.



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