> > > I notice that the spam test message is some new standard GTUBE
> > > and includes a 'Precedence: junk' header.
[]
> That's exactly why I added it -- to keep (my) autoresponders from answering 
> on that test message when I send it myself.
[]
> > If your spam filtering setup is bamboozled by a Precedence header, then
> > maybe you need to look at why and fix it. (It should have no effect
> > either positive or negative on spam filtering.....)

Spamassassin scores it correctly. The Precedence header is not
interfering with that side of things at all.

The problem comes in once it has been classified as spam. Amavisd-new
allows me to configure what to do with it, deliver it, drop it,
bounce it. Not unreasonably, if the message claims to be Precedence: junk
then Amavis will not notify the sender of anything. This is
therefore not a good test of whether the set-up is configured as I
would wish. (Especially as spammers don't mark their junk as junk!)

> Yeah, just imagine some spammer adding a Precedence header...

I'm sure that if they thought it would help their spam get it through,
they would add it in :-) or should that be :-(

All the best

Geoff

UK-Human Genome Mapping Project-Resource Centre,
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK
Tel: +44 1223 494530  Fax: +44 1223 494512  E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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