On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:44:20AM -0700, Stephen Rawls wrote: > The last two (well, the only two :) patches I sent > were counted as spam. Some of the points were becuase > I'm using Yahoo. Should I send patches from another > e-mail address? I have a NASA e-mail account, but I > can only access it at work (they have external > accounts, but they don't give them to all employees). > > Do the patches still get read if they are counted as > spam? Are they just less likely to be noticed? > > Stephen Rawls > > PS. Here's the spam asassain content analysis: > > -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results > ------Content analysis details: (7.3 hits, 7 > required) > REPLY_TO_EMPTY (4.3 points) Reply-To: is empty > FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS (1.0 points) From: ends in numbers > FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD (2.0 points) Forged yahoo.com > 'Received:' header found
Are you sending them from your home machine via SMTP with a mail program that thinks your machine is part of yahoo.com? [Which you may need to do to get your mail program to let you put a From: header in from yahoo.com]? If so, can you tweak your mailer to work around the SpamAssassin rules by either or both of 1: Changing your machine so that it doesn't think it's yahoo.com 2: Adding a Reply-To: back to your yahoo address (clearly if you currently need to have your machine think it's in a sub-domain of yahoo.com so that your messages come From: yahoo.com, then you'd have to do both of the above to get mail to go back to your yahoo account) I'm curious why Reply-To is scored so highly - I don't set any Reply-To in my messages, and I didn't think that it was normal practice. Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
