Michael Scheidell writes: > http://markmail.org/message/w6scp6xqlkdgrh3b?q=EXTRA_MPART_TYPE&page=1&refer=w6scp6xqlkdgrh3b > > 263 google hits for EXTRA_MPART_TYPE. all someone needs to so is have an > inline image, and pass it through a microsoft exchange server for this > rule to hit. > > many (many, many) suggestions going way back to 2005: and sa3.15: > > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5110 > > so, I for one will set score to 0 in local.cf.. waited and waited for > the fix for 3 years > (yes, I know, rfc compliant doesn't mean != spam), but a rule that will > hit ANY exchange processed email with an inline image in the background > is not helpful.
it has a score of 1.0. that's about typical for a rule that has a 99.4% hitrate against spam, but still hits quite a lot of spam. FWIW, the more ham samples we have, the less likely FPs will be... --j.
