Anders Norrbring wrote:
[...] Here it is again, posted before... All the headers from a mail sent out via my Outlook.. If there's something in the headers that can be treated as "unique" or "safe", please let me know.
Well, realize that you can only affect what's received on YOUR system, not others. The rule I provided would avoid YOUR system tagging Outlook 2003 messages as spam, but obviously won't help for stuff you send elsewhere.
So, given that you'll start with a significant strike against you (3+ points, IIRC), make sure you're not otherwise spammy. That .biz domain will count another few points against you. You could sign up for habeas, and this is exactly the sort of situation it's meant for, I believe. Says "Although I send from a spammy domain, this is NOT spam and I'm willing to risk financial penalties if I voilate this trust." That's why I still continue to give a negative score to habeas-tagged messages.
I'm afraid Bill G. doesn't invite med to his breakfasts, so my complaints about the lacking header element probably won't be noticed.. :)
Do messages from other clients besides Outlook 2003 get labelled correctly? That may be the easiest fix.
Quoting the article you cited:
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Also, RFC 2821 <http://www.faqs.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt> allows the first or last SMTP server in the chain to add a Message-Id if none is present, but there are still many RFC-compliant SMTP servers out there which do not do so, and the client has absolutely no guarantees that a message will get a Message-Id header - and IMHO, every message should have one.
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Well, there's another fix. Get your server admin to fix it for you?
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<http://www.mentalized.net/journal/2003/01/03/experiencing_outlook_xp/index.asp>Oh well... score another one for muddy thinking. The end result? Outlook 2003 currently generates scores of messages that may very well be considered <http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2003/up031211.htm> spam
by many popular spam filters out there - and for a very, very good reason, too.
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And there's why the world's not necessarily going to drop that scoring for you!
I found THIS amusing: http://www.slipstick.com/emo/2003/up031211.htm
[...] Mark says that, as he understands it, Microsoft's position that they expect all mail servers to whitelist outgoing mail from Outlook 2003 users and add a Message-ID header to fill in the one that Outlook omits.
- Bob
