been marked by MDaemon's Spam Blocker * 3.5 -- Forged mail pretending to
be from The Bat! End of SpamAssassin results
Some sysadmins are just stupid. I am NOT pretending to use The Bat!, I
_am_ _using_ The Bat!
As far as I know FORGET_MUA_THEBAT also checks whether the
Message-ID is TB!-like
Hello Roman Katzer everyone else,
on 19-Feb-2005 at 05:40 you (Roman Katzer) wrote:
Interesting. This SpamAssassin must really be badly maintained.
Actually, it's pretty well maintained
Everyone can fake the X-Mailer header so that it contains the
identification of a genuine mail program.
Hello Mica,
%COMMENT=This is The Bat!, (wo)man. :tbflag: Accept this fact, leave
this message alone (virgo intacta) and live in peace.
I think I'm going to do something like that. Great Idea! :-)
But I doubt that anyone could talk effectively with an administrator, or
even anti-spam
Hello Robin,
Well, so am I. But to prevent possible problems such as you encounter, I
disguise my mailer slightly - see my X-mailer header. Actually, I use
one of a list of 21 equivalents to The Bat! in a variety of languages.
But that is still like hiding part of my identity and I don't see
Hello Alexander,
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:03:08 +0100 GMT (19/02/2005, 16:03 +0700 GMT),
Alexander S. Kunz wrote:
ASK Everyone can fake the X-Mailer header so that it contains the
ASK identification of a genuine mail program. The spam I get claims to be (or
ASK is) written with Microsoft Outlook
Hello Thomas Fernandez everyone else,
on 19-Feb-2005 at 13:53 you (Thomas Fernandez) wrote:
The faked X-Mailer a spam software created was a TB version, but there
was another header in those mails that wold be created only by Outlook,
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal. That's how the faked X-Mailer
Hello Alexander,
Saturday, February 19, 2005, 3:08:08 PM, you wrote:
ASK The
ASK point is that a totally legit message created with TB v3.0.2.10 or 3.0.1.33
ASK will get a spam rating from SA because of the wrong FORGED_MUA_THEBAT
ASK problem, so I'm back to my statement that they shouldn't
by MDaemon's Spam Blocker * 3.5 -- Forged mail pretending to
be from The Bat! End of SpamAssassin results
: Message contains [1] file attachments
Some sysadmins are just stupid. I am NOT pretending to use The Bat!, I
_am_ _using_ The Bat!
--
Best regards,
Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain
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Hello All,
Friday, February 18, 2005, 9:48:12 AM, MAU wrote:
M As many of you know, blaming The Bat! for spam is not an new issue. Look
M what I got yesterday:
MDaemon has indentified your message as spam. It will not be delivered.
From : [EMAIL
[1] file attachments
Some sysadmins are just stupid. I am NOT pretending to use The Bat!, I
_am_ _using_ The Bat!
Interesting. This SpamAssassin must really be badly maintained. I sent a
support inquiry to my provider yesterday because I get this in my mails as
well, to be precise the very same
MAU @ 2005-Feb-18 10:48:12 AM
Pretending to use The Bat! mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
As many of you know, blaming The Bat! for spam is not an new issue. Look
what I got yesterday:
SNIP
Start SpamAssassin results 6.50 points, 5 required; * 3.0 -- Message
has been marked by MDaemon's Spam
Hello Marc,
What's the rest of the header look like? I didn't see anything
identifying MUA or MTA in the section you quoted.
What I quoted is the error message I received, not the headers.
--
Best regards,
Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v3.0.2.10
Winamp Playing:
Hello Alexander,
I told them that TheBat is not a forged MUA, but I have little hope that it
will actually change anything, this topic has been brought up often enough
and nothing has changed ever since.
Yes, it is a difficult battle. What I did was to let the recipients know
that their
Hello Chris,
You can turn off the X-Mailer header.
Options - Preferences = General - UNCHECK Use X-Mailer header in
messages
Yes, I know. But I don't want to hide the fact that I am using The Bat!.
I _am_ proud of using TB.
--
Best regards,
Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using
Hello Chris everyone else,
on 18-Feb-2005 at 17:59 you (Chris) wrote:
Because of its macros and templateing system, The Bat! has been
considered a spam tool by some anti-spam companies.
AFAIK there once was a bulk email software that would create fake X-Mailer
headers. But, in that software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
***^\ ._)~~
~( __ _o Was another beautiful day, Fri, 18 Feb 2005,
@ @ at 18:21:49 +0100, when MAU wrote:
I don't want to hide the fact that I am using The Bat!. I _am_ proud
of using TB.
We have even TB flag(s). (-:
So we can
Hi MAU,
on Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:21:49 +0100GMT, you wrote:
You can turn off the X-Mailer header.
Options - Preferences = General - UNCHECK Use X-Mailer header in
messages
M Yes, I know. But I don't want to hide the fact that I am using The Bat!.
You shouldn't.
M I _am_ proud of using
On Sat 19 February 2005, 4:21:49 +1000, Mau wrote:
Yes, I know. But I don't want to hide the fact that I am using The Bat!.
I _am_ proud of using TB.
Well, so am I. But to prevent possible problems such as you encounter, I
disguise my mailer slightly - see my X-mailer header. Actually, I use
On Friday, February 18, 2005, 11:45:37, Alexander S. Kunz wrote:
Interesting. This SpamAssassin must really be badly maintained.
Actually, it's pretty well maintained. They just have difficulties with
adjusting to new TB versions but _will_ do their best to do so.
Post a bug report at
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