http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5666





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-01-15 13:01 -------
Here are some things that I came across that could affect some details of these
rules. I'm noting them here to make sure that they get documented somewhere.

I found a number of emails that hit both __OE_MSGID_2 and __OE_MSGID_4 because
sympatico.ca sometimes (but not most of the time) did not remove the original
Message-ID when adding a new one. Luckily that doesn't interfere with what these
rules are looking for, but I can imagine someone writing rules that assume the
existence of only one Message-ID header.

Something else I found is that a significant percentage of the __OE_MSGID_3 an
__OE_MSGID_4 hits occur without an Outlook or Outlook Express mailer header.
That indicates that MTA adds a Message-ID header even when the MUA is not OL/OE.
I think that means that the __OE_MSGID_3 and __OE_MSGID_4 tests should be made
part of the UNUSABLE_MSGID subrule, not part of an OE-specific rule. They both
indicate that an ISP is rewriting the Message-ID and therefore the Message-ID
cannot be used as part of a spam-sign. If we do that the names should be changed
to something that refers to the ISP and not OE.

I'm going to do some more testing with my sandbox to get this right.




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