On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:13:34PM +0200, Michael Holzt wrote:
> > It seems unlikely that spammers would forge X-Spam-Status headers that
> > mark the message as being spam. Of course there are no guarantees, but
> > at this stage I have little reason to disbelieve such headers.
>
> So you would believe a 'X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 [...]" line forged by a
> spammer? Think about a script scanning for 'X-Spam-Status: No' and have a
> hit on the first occurence. Might very well be the forged one. I believe
> there have been reports about spammers trying that trick.
Read what I just wrote more carefully. I specifically discuss headers
that mark the message as being spam (X-Spam-Status: Yes or True), not
the case you discuss.
> > The MUA just looks for any X-Spam-Score header which indicates that the
> > message is spam.
>
> Might, or might not. You can't tell for sure.
Again you misunderstand. I meant that I look for "X-Spam-Score: Yes" or
"X-Spam-Score: True" and ignore "X-Spam-Score: No" or "X-Spam-Score: False".
Regards,
Andrew
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