On April 9th Embarq, my DSL provider, dropped Earthlink as their mail provider and switched over to Synacor while giving everyone an address of @embarqmail.com. Since then every post that is sent from my system to me is tagged as [Possible Spam] whether its the output of a cronjob or just a test message to myself. Its not my box that is doing the tagging, rather its Synacor thats doing it. A typical spam markup looks like this:
Old-X-Spam-Flag: YES Old-X-Spam-Score: 7.337 Old-X-Spam-Level: ******* Old-X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=7.337 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=3.209, BAYES_50=0.001, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL=1.946, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=2.046] The above is from the output of the cronjob I run to download the MSRBL updates. Even a test message I send to myself is tagged as spam: Old-X-Spam-Flag: YES Old-X-Spam-Score: 8.767 Old-X-Spam-Level: ******** Old-X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=8.767 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=1.775, BAYES_95=3, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL=1.946, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL=2.046] While my markup for the above message looks like this: X-Spam-Remote: Host localhost.localdomain X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on cpollock.localdomain X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8,AWL=4.339, BAYES_00=-6.4 autolearn=disabled version=3.1.8 As another test I sent a message to my old earthlink address since they are forwarding mail until Oct 31st, the Synacor markup is even more confusing, at least to me. The subject was changed to reflect [Possible Spam], however that markup was: Old-X-Spam-Score: -0.185 Old-X-Spam-Level: Old-X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.185 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_40=-0.185] How/why is the subject being re-written with a score of -0.185? I've been in discussion with a Q&A guy from Embarq about this and other issues, but I don't believe much headway is being made between Embarq and Synacor. A message to Synacor Tech Support didn't even rate a reply. What, to me, is seemingly odd is that replies to spam reports that I send to various abuse addresses, if the reply contains the original spam, the message subject is changed to [Possible Spam] however the markup shows: Old-X-Spam-Score: 1.322 Old-X-Spam-Level: * Old-X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.322 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ADVANCE_FEE_1=0, BAYES_00=-2.599, DEAR_SOMETHING=2.1, HTML_10_20=1.351, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_NONELEMENT_40_50=0.126, PLING_PLING=0.343] My question is, what is Embarq/Synacor doing? Why is my ISP marking mail I send to myself as spam? I know where the RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL and RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL markups are coming from according to SORBS: Netblock: 71.48.168.0/21 (71.48.168.0-71.48.175.255) Record Created: Mon Apr 9 02:39:48 2007 GMT Record Updated: Mon Apr 9 02:39:48 2007 GMT Additional Information: [#149634 (Embarq Supplied Update - 09/04/2007)] Dynamic/Generic IP/rDNS address, use your ISPs mail server or get rDNS set to indicate static assignment. Currently active and flagged to be published in DNS Any words of wisdom I can send to Synacor would be appreciated if they are in fact necessary. Any help on understanding why a message that has a score that says its not spam but has the subject changed to state it is would be appreciated also. Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
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