Robert J. Accettura wrote on Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:43:35 -0500: > it > will become more common to send just HTML mail since it's quicker, and > smaller in size. >
gulp ??? Adding 1k to a normally 0,1k mail and then removing 0,1k is "smaller in size"? > Relying on mail format is silly > Well believe me or not, but about 80-90% of the spam I get is HTML (html-only oder text+html) and less than 1% of the legitimate email I get is HTML. Makes for a pretty nice spamblock. Actually, makes up for the *best* spam indicator you currently have. If you use it carefully, it's very powerful. It can happen for all rules that the combined scoring indicates spam although it isn't. If you are not that "fanatic" about getting HTML as I (yes, I admit that ;-) you can simply add a score of 1 or 2 and be safe. It will catch most of the spam which still slips thru but won't score high enough for legitimate messages. The problem is that SA doesn't have a simple CONTAINS_HTML rule at the moment (2.43). So I'm currently simply blocking all HTML mail. Most of the spam still slipping thru SA (I'm testing it only for two weeks now) on the central mail server is stopped by my HTML blocking on the office mail server (done with DMail filtering). I can live with the few legitimate emails getting rejected and I doubt that just rejecting all HTML sends more messages to the jail than other rules. Of course, I can't do this for clients, that's why SA needs a CONTAINS_HTML rule, so one can score it and also disable it in user_prefs. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Take your first step towards giving your online business a competitive advantage. Test-drive a Thawte SSL certificate - our easy online guide will show you how. Click here to get started: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0027en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
