On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Bob Gereford wrote:
I've received a message with a Subject of
"Be Serious and Have Fun!"
Looking at the headers
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Level: !!!!!!!
X-Spam-Status: score=7.8/4.0 autolearn=spam
X-Spam-Report:
* 4.0 URIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the URIBL blacklist
* [URIs: howtodothings.com]
* 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML_MESSAGE
* 1.5 BODY_8BITS BODY: Body includes 8 consecutive 8-bit characters
* 2.2 DCC_CHECK Listed in DCC (http://rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/)
* 1.8 MISSING_SUBJECT MISSING_SUBJECT
* 1.4 EMPTY_MESSAGE EMPTY_MESSAGE
* -0.0 NO_RECEIVED NO_RECEIVED
* -3.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:53:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "TheLadders.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "TheLadders.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Be Serious and Have Fun!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Spamassassin scores the message
* 1.8 MISSING_SUBJECT MISSING_SUBJECT
for not having a Subject line. ??
Looking down your headers (that is _IF_ they are as you have shown above),
there is a blank line just after the X-Spam-Report lines. Once that blank
line is hit, all the rest is considered the body of the message.
Therefore, SpamAssassin has scored for a missing subject.
I found an apparently related bug that says RESOLVED
"MISSING_SUBJECT is wrong"
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5207
but I honestly can't understand the "resolution".
Like in the bug, I've checked the message with
spamassassin -LD check 4589 >& /dev/null
and see no errors.
Why is SA saying my message has no "Subject"?
-d
