https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7888
--- Comment #11 from Byron Kleingeld <by...@zoomedia.co.za> --- (In reply to RW from comment #10) > (In reply to John Hardin from comment #7) > > > (In reply to RW from comment #5) > > > 3 points does seem a bit extreme for a tracker. > > > > That's based on such headers appearing in very little ham in our corpus. If > > the bulk mailer doing this was a widely-used legitimate service I'd expect > > to see more hammy instances of it. The scored rule does have exclusions for > > signs in the ham we do have, > > The only exclusion is "&& !__HAVE_BOUNCE_RELAYS". __HAVE_BOUNCE_RELAYS is > test for whether any bounce relays are configured in the VBounce plug. In > most set-ups it's unconditionally false. > > > > That is historically the > > kind of tactic used by spammers to avoid static pattern and checksum > > detection tools and to pollute spam signature databases, > > That's more to do with the body. I don't think there's anything of that sort > that would be affected by non-standard headers. I'll have to agree with this, while the software is being used maliciously, it is commercial software (https://www.mailwizz.com) and this rule would punish everyone who bought the software, legitimate or otherwise. I am forced to return those headers because the software's bounce handling and box monitoring features require them to function as it reads the values to automatically unsubscribe bouncing mails, or deadmail boxes, etc etc. I'm at a bit of an empasse now, we've taken the time to build the reputation of our servers, set up SPF and valid DKIM records and all the DNS fluff that goes around running an email marketing platform only to get punished because it's a "spammy platform" that we've heavily modified over the course of 2 years of development. I'm open to suggestions though, while -2 spam score isn't a death sentence for our mailers and we're working with postmasters to get our mails properly routed and whilelisted and all that jazz (Effort I seriously doubt a group of spammers would go through). It just feels a bit depressing getting punished for using off-the-shelf commercial mass mailing software as a basis. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
