Re: [Nolug] Confused about SpamAssassin report

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:31, -ray wrote:
> 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.

So they just assume that anyone using KMail would never send out spam?

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