Bug with HTML messages?

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca
Thu Jul 29 20:04:37 IST 2010



Le 2010-07-29 14:57, Alex Broens a écrit :
> On 2010-07-29 20:07, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>  Oops, I switched those 2:
>>
>>> SA scoring with HTML-only email: (not cached, score=12.639, requis 
>>> 4.5, autolearn=spam, DEAR_SOMETHING 1.60, DRUGS_ERECTILE 0.28, 
>>> DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU 1.23, DRUG_ED_CAPS 0.32, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, 
>>> KAM_VIAGRA1 3.00, KAM_VIAGRA5 3.10, KAM_VIAGRA6 3.10)
>>>
>>> SA scoring with HTML+TXT email: (not cached, score=7.181, requis 
>>> 4.5, DCC_CHECK 2.17, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_TAG_BALANCE_HEAD 1.33, 
>>> MIME_HTML_ONLY 1.46, TVD_SPACE_RATIO 2.22)
>>>
>>
>> SA scoring with HTML+TXT email: (not cached, score=12.639, requis 
>> 4.5, autolearn=spam, DEAR_SOMETHING 1.60, DRUGS_ERECTILE 0.28, 
>> DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU 1.23, DRUG_ED_CAPS 0.32, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, 
>> KAM_VIAGRA1 3.00, KAM_VIAGRA5 3.10, KAM_VIAGRA6 3.10)
>>
>> SA scoring with HTML-only email: (not cached, score=7.181, requis 
>> 4.5, DCC_CHECK 2.17, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, HTML_TAG_BALANCE_HEAD 1.33, 
>> MIME_HTML_ONLY 1.46, TVD_SPACE_RATIO 2.22)
>>
>
> you are not feeding it consistent content.
> where is the problem?
>
> get a real spam wich was tagged as spam and dumped in your quaratine.
> feed that to spamassassin (without MS), is the result consistent?
>
> if not, its usually due to MS's msg chunk settings
>
>

Alex,

When I feed the emails to SA they get scored much higher than through MS.

My point is that an HTML-only email with quite common spam words are not 
being scored, while an HTML+TXT email with the same spam words get 
scored.  This looks quite suspicious to me.

Denis

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