Re: [Nolug] Confused about SpamAssassin report

On 9 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:27, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> > ---- Start SpamAssassin results
> > 0.90 points, 3 required;
> > * 0.0 -- User-Agent header indicates a non-spam MUA (KMail)
> > * 0.9 -- Date: is 3 to 6 hours after Received: date
> >
> > ---- End of SpamAssassin results
>
> What does this mean?

SpamAssassin assigns a spam score for the message based on hundreds of
rules and heuristic tests. The message you referenced matched two rules.
0 points for using Kmail, and .9 points since the Date/Received headers
were out of whack. Normally the mailserver will insert an X-Spam-Level:
header, and you can setup your MUA to filter accordingly. Typically a
score over 5 is bordering on spam... We use it here at Southeastern,
along with MIMEDefang. They work great.

See: http://www.spamassassin.org

-ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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