https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6678

--- Comment #3 from Karsten Bräckelmann <[email protected]> 2011-10-19 
22:12:12 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> These certainly look like *real* replies, as in it's a conversation where one
> user has replied to another. Subjects all begin with Re:

> Yet I have other examples of replies from the same user with the same X-Mailer
> relayed through the same ISP that do have the References header.

Can you tell if this was the first "reply", or already a replied-to mail?

Asking, because we most likely can rule out the SMTP relay stripping the
header, according to comment 2. The difference would be the user manually
adding the Re: prefix, or just copying the Subject verbatim.

Either case, it looks like the sender did not actually reply, but composed the
message some other way. Like the reverse of the thread-hijacking "reply, and
prune subject and body to get a 'clean' message". Users have done stranger
things, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of your samples turn out to be
copied content from a reply into a newly composed message...

Or maybe some "helpful" third-party tool used, that hooks into OE6.


Anyway, it would be an edge case, and single rules FP'ing does happen... From
your comments it certainly doesn't seem to be a bad rule systematically
triggering falsely.

> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.523 tagged_above=-999 required=5
>     tests=[BAYES_00=-5, FAKE_REPLY_C=1.486, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,
>     RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01]

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