On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:54:27PM -0500, Michael Cocke wrote:
> Can someone point me to a sa developer?  We've been doing some hacking 

For things like rule suggestions, we generally like people to goto
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/ and open a ticket about it.
That way there's tracking and such.

> on SA at work (guardiandigital.com) and have a rule that we'd like to 
> get run against the corpus.  It's not worth getting all set up as real 

FWIW, there isn't "the corpus", it's a bunch of personal corpora.

> multipart related instead of the common way, but we're a little 
> concerned about false positives.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the common way".  If you want to send a text
part with an image, it's "multipart/related".

> header LOCAL_MULTIPART_RELATED Content-Type =~ /multipart\/related;/

Yeah, I did some work related to this when trying to clean up the
EXTRA_MPART_TYPE rule.  See
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5110 for that
discussion.

Someone else also suggested it in
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5224

There's also a number of tickets for FPs on image spams, since
they're essentially being sent with Outlook, so genuine Outlook mails get
flagged a lot, ie:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5226


All that said, the rule may work well for you, it really depends on the type
of mails that you receive.  For example, if it wasn't for my hamtraps, I
wouldn't receive any legit mails that include pictures and could easily ignore
the whole image spam thing with a simple MTA rule.

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