Thanks Scott, I meant to say SPAMHEADERS in lieu of BADHEADERS...to ya'll I was RFC ignorant...you had to figure the rest of the ignorance out on your own...LOL
Jim Rooth Klotron, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] BADHEADERS Test question >So far I've been very happy with JunkMail. I'm only running a few tests and >it's catching a lot of spam and porn. However, I'm noticing the occasional >legitimate email from badly formatted clients. For example, JunkMail caught >a confirmation email from an online service that one of my co-workers signed >up for. This was a good email but it had badly formatted headers. >Fortunately, I'm not rejecting or deleting emails as of yet but eventually I >will. How do you all deal with emails that fail the BADHEADERS test because >of poor mail clients/senders but are legit emails that need to be delivered? >I'm looking for my "next step" in configuring JunkMail. Any advice is >appreciated. I think that Jim's suggestion of relying on the weighting system is the best answer. My personal opinion, though, is that the BADHEADERS test should have a high weight towards the weighting system, as no mail client should be sending out E-mail with non-RFC-compliant headers -- that's very bad. Given how much spam has increased lately, I think we're getting to the point where broken E-mail headers can't be ignored any longer. Note that the problem doesn't lie with the overworked mail server administrator on the other side -- it lies in the company that designed the mail client, that they are collecting money from. The SPAMHEADERS test (headers that are technically RFC-compliant , but spamlike) will catch E-mail from quite a few poorly designed web sites, and *should* be fixed, but since the headers are RFC-compliant, a lower weight should be used with the SPAMHEADERS test. Scott --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
