I've installed SpamAssassin for our GroupWise system, and it is fantastic. Thus far out of 487 messages that have come in since installation, 180 have been classified as Spam, and except for 2 cases they really WERE Spam. One does not concern me - another mail server was not configured correctly, and a requested return receipt was flagged because they did not have their domain name properly configured for the daemon responses.
The second is a bit more problematic, and perhaps someone can explain it to me. Although it would be quite simple for me to add this to the WhiteList or alter our own criteria to avoid these being classified as Spam, this particular mailer (which is part of our external shopping cart setup) sends email to my customers, and I'm afraid that as Spam blockers become more popular we would be blocked from them. Today I received a message from my shopping cart that a new customer had signed up for our mailing list. It was a simple three line message containing only text, indicating that the new member had signed up, and giving me the member's name and email address. None of the text was flagged as possible Spam, but the header was - here's the report: SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: Content analysis details: (5.7 hits, 5 required) SPAM: X_SMTPEXP_VERSION (3.2 points) Found a X-SMTPExp-Version header SPAM: X_EM2.31PRESENT (1.3 points) Found a X-EM-Version header SPAM: X_EM_REGISTRATION (1.2 points) Found a X-EM-Registration header SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- Can you help me understand why these values would be "SPAM" triggers? My biggest concern is that these are probably going to be present in mailings I send to customers (for example, notifying them when we have new products, or when current products are updated) if I use the mailing list generator from the shopping cart. We only send email to people who have specifically requested that we have them on our mailing list/have requested product updates, so it's important that our messages not be classified as Spam by SpamAssassin or any other Spam killer products. I will note that when I receive order notices from the shopping cart, the "order status" indicator reverses enough points so that they are not considered Spam. And again, I realize that I could alter my own criteria to avoid these messages being blocked in OUR system, but I am concerned about the fact that these might be seen as Spam by other systems we mail to. Thanks. Danita ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
