Bug with HTML messages?
Alex Broens
ms-list at alexb.ch
Fri Jul 30 08:09:45 IST 2010
On 2010-07-30 3:14, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Le 2010-07-29 17:09, Alex Broens a écrit :
>> On 2010-07-29 21:04, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> what are your MS "chunk" settings?
>> are you sure MS is sending the full message to SA?
>>
>> pls post the sample message you're using in pastebin so ppl can try to
>> reproduce.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> Alex,
>
> I don't think my chunk settings really matter since the email is really
> short: http://pastebin.com/sMf7rW6s for the HTML-only version and
> http://pastebin.com/eiTTWuer for the HTML+TXT version.
>
> Some MS settings that were changed from the default values:
> Max Spam Check Size = 500000
> Max SpamAssassin Size = 200k trackback
for SA these are two VERY different messages and scores them accordingly.
Nothing wrong in that.
Alex
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