Maxim Masiutin wrote: > Hello All, > > My name is Maxim Masiutin, from Ritlabs, we develop The Bat! e-mail client > program. > > Malte S. Stretz have contacted me several years ago about the SpamAssassin > rules related to The Bat! program, particularly REPTO_OVERQUOTE_THEBAT, but > he no longer replies to my e-mails. > > I would like to raise an issue that SUBJ_RE_NUM raises false positives. It > checks the number in “Re” in subject, and if there is a number, e.g. “Re[5]: > Antivirus” and no “X-Mailer: The Bat!” header, it adds score to the message. > In The Bat!, both “Re numbering” and “X-Mailer” options are configurable in > the program interface, and the user is able to independently switch them on > and off, and these options did exist in the very first versions of The Bat! > > You can contact me about the SpamAssassin rules related to The Bat! e-mail > client, I, knowing the internals of this e-mail program, can provide the > developers of SpamAssassin rules with the exact algorithms which should not > give false positives. > > Interesting. The rule appears to explicitly check for messages generated by The Bat! and ignores them.
Do the affected messages have an X-Mailer header containing "The Bat!"? Here's the relevant bits of the rule: header __THEBAT_MUA X-Mailer =~ /The Bat!/ header __SUBJ_RE_NUM Subject =~ /^\s*Re\[\d+\]:/i meta SUBJ_RE_NUM !__THEBAT_MUA && __SUBJ_RE_NUM
