On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 14:31, Craig R Hughes wrote: > MM> - Not as weird as all that, apparently > MM> score MSGID_CHARS_WEIRD -2.178 > > Looks like mail servers (Exchange and Netscape mail server) sometimes > create > message ids which look like: > > Message-Id: <p05111701b8f970233263@[198.142.175.158]> > > I don't know what the origin of the MSGID_CHARS_WEIRD rule was -- are > there > other uses of [] inside message ids which are bad? I believe that the RFC's require IP addresses to be included within [], so this use is legit.
Maybe the rule should allow @[ip] and bitch about others? > In my own mail archive, there are a number of messages which I've had on file > for years and years, which have been migrated through multiple message stores, > which seem to have lost their Date: headers. Don't know how that happened. > Some of these messages have gone > > mbox->PST->Exchange->PST->Exchange->PST->Exchange->PST->mbox->cyrus > > I think I'd be in favor of pushing the score up into +ve territory, since > incoming legitimate messages will be a lot more likely to have date headers. Some MTA's (and on the MSA side) will ADD a missing Date: header. I doubt ANY mail coming in off SMTP will NOT have a date header. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
