On 11 Nov 2020, at 9:45, Charlie Clark wrote:
Hiya,
much as I like MailMate, I find its support for spam detection
sub-par. I understand that there is a preference for SpamSieve but
many mail servers already have spam filters like Spam Assassin, so why
not make more us of them? Even Apple Mail does a good job with them.
As a result, I'm currently running Apple Mail on accounts where I'm
seeing a lot of spam and let it the filtering. I checked the rules
that are used and they don't look bad:
* sender in contacts
I don't believe that is possible.
* sender in exisiting recipients
<From><is in><Sent Messages><Recipient>"
* to contains full name
I haven't tried it, but I would expect this to work:
<To><contains><Charlie Clark >
* trust spam headers
<X-Spam-Status><contains><Yes,>
Has anyone figured out conditions for rules like this?
See above.
I've got headers like this:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.8 required=5.0
tests=HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST,
HTML_MESSAGE,NORDNS_LOW_CONTRAST,RDNS_NONE,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS,
URIBL_ABUSE_SURBL,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
version=3.4.2
<Putting on "Apache SpamAssassin Project Committer" hat>
Job 0: get your mail provider to fix that URIBL_BLOCKED problem. It
indicates that they are trying to use a free-for-most DNS-based URI
blocking list (uribl.com) in a way that makes them seem like a large
commercial email provider, for whom usage is NOT free. It may be as
simple as a DNS config change on the machine running SA, if they are
currently using a shared forwarder and don't actually have large volume.
MM SHOULD parse that X-Spam-Status and put it in the "Spam Score"
pseudo-header for display and in X-Spam-Status->Score for conditions.
Unfortunately, it does not recognize the value as a number for
conditions, so you don't get 'greater than' and 'less than' operators.
Where I'd like to be able to set the threshold a bit lower but I can't
think of an easy way of doing this at the moment with the score not
being available as a separate header.
What are you all doing?
Filtering on the server side and seeing so little spam that it's not
worth dealing with in MM. (Yes, I know that's not a broadly useful
strategy.)
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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