Re: [Nolug] Confused about SpamAssassin report

On 9 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> > 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?

Yes, that is one of the downfalls. The default config assigns the KMail
MUA a -2.8 (negative score). Spammers would have a field day with this.
The mail administrator must have set all the negative score rules to 0, so
they don't affect the score either way, which is not a bad idea.

-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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