On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, David Jones wrote:

On 03/05/2018 06:57 PM, John Hardin wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Alex wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 5:59 PM, John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Alex wrote:

To: =?utf-8?Q?DermotO=27reilly?= <Sean.O'rei...@example.com>
*  2.6 APOSTROPHE_TOCC To or CC address contains an apostrophe

2.6 points for this is just unreasonable. This was a completely
legitimate email.

Is such an address even deliverable?

Yes, it's beyond me why anyone would want to use an apostrophe, but
it's valid.

OK.

That rule is 8 years stale. I've added a masscheck score limit of 1.000

I'm open to discussion of converting it to a subrule and/or adding some extra conditions to it.


Here are some samples of what I found in my corpora which supplies the majority of the nightly masscheck corpora.

https://pastebin.com/QchEu2BA
https://pastebin.com/pbYnvzU4
https://pastebin.com/EjnQSE7H

In this case these were really bad spam so the APOSTROPHE_TOCC is just riding on the back of other rules, BLs, and high Bayes scores.

What I generally look at is the detailed rule performance in masscheck. If it primarily hits on spams that score in total 1-3 points I generally tend to set the score limit somewhat higher. Having a tail of higher-scoring hits doesn't affect that analysis.

This looks like one of those rules.

In this case I'd probably set the score limit on this rule low and add more generously-scored metas for the high-spam-low-ham rule overlaps from the masscheck results.

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