Oh, you actually pay for software?  Just kidding :P

It could be pirated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Grandgent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SAtalk] SMTPD_IN_RCVD test is unfair discrimination...?


That software costs $1000 minimum.  However, there is an evaluation 
version available.  I don't see why spammers would use the eval version 
of a full-fledged mail server instead of one of the great many free 
or cheap programs designed solely to do mass mailing, but I accept that 
it's within the realm of possibility.

I would be interested in seeing the ratio of spams detected versus 
false-positives based on this test.  Is that what determines the 
"default score" for a test, by the way?  Or is it something else?


Vince Puzzella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> It's probably because a lot of small-time, DYI spammers use that 
> software to perform bulk mailing.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Grandgent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SAtalk] SMTPD_IN_RCVD test is unfair discrimination...?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I run Ipswitch Mail Server, a popular mail server on Win32, and 
> recently
> 
> one of my users had a legitimate email he sent flagged as spam by
> SpamAssassin running on the receiving server.  What caught my
attention 
> was the line:
> 
> SMTPD_IN_RCVD      (2.1 points)  Received via SMTPD32 server
> (SMTPD32-n.n)
> 
> (SMTPD32-n.n) is how IMail identifies itself.  So this test is saying 
> that if the message is coming from an IMail server, it's probably 
> spam. Right?
> To my knowledge, IMail is as secure against spammers as any other good
> mail 
> server.  It's dirt simple to configure as a closed relay.  The 
> documentation strongly recommends doing this and explains the problems

> with open relays in detail.
> 
> I searched for more information on this test on the SpamAssassin web 
> site and the list archives but couldn't find anything.  Can anyone 
> explain the
> reasoning behind this test?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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