Am 03.10.2014 um 21:55 schrieb David F. Skoll:
> I've noticed a trend in which spammers put in a bunch of X- header
> purporting to show that a message is good.  I've appended sample
> headers (slightly obfuscated to hide recipient) below.
> 
> I wonder if a test for more than (say) 8 "X-*" header in
> an inbound mail would be a good spam indicator?

hard to say in general, that are not so much X-Headers

i have seen a lot of spam really tagged with such
headers because some outgoing mailserver had indeed
a spamfilter and the messages did not reach the block
score and depending on how many hops a mail takes
the number of such headers increases

i would not take the amount of such headers into account

just look at some mailing lists which have their own scanners
adding headers and the innocent sender also has a outgoing
scanner and may even not know about

personally i ignore all that headers for training and strip
them away on the MTA for inbound to finally face only the
own ones

bayes_ignore_header List-Archive
bayes_ignore_header List-Help
bayes_ignore_header List-Id
bayes_ignore_header List-Post
bayes_ignore_header List-Subscribe
bayes_ignore_header List-Unsubscribe
bayes_ignore_header Mailing-List
bayes_ignore_header Precedence
bayes_ignore_header X-ACL-Warn
bayes_ignore_header X-Alimail-AntiSpam
bayes_ignore_header X-Amavis-Modified
bayes_ignore_header X-AntiAbuse
bayes_ignore_header X-Antispam
bayes_ignore_header X-Anti-Spam
bayes_ignore_header X-Antivirus
bayes_ignore_header X-Anti-Virus
bayes_ignore_header X-Antivirus-Status
bayes_ignore_header X-Antivirus-Version
bayes_ignore_header X-Anti-Virus-Version
bayes_ignore_header X-ASF-Spam-Status
bayes_ignore_header X-ASG-Debug-ID
bayes_ignore_header X-ASG-Orig-Subj
bayes_ignore_header X-ASG-Recipient-Whitelist
bayes_ignore_header X-ASG-Tag
bayes_ignore_header X-Attachment-Id
bayes_ignore_header X-Authenticated-As
bayes_ignore_header X-Authenticated-Sender
bayes_ignore_header X-Authenticated-User
bayes_ignore_header X-Authvirus
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Bayes
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-BBL-IP
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Connect
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Encrypted
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Envelope-From
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Fingerprint-Found
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Orig-Rcpt
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-RBL-IP
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-RBL-Trusted-Forwarder
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Spam-Report
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Spam-Score
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Spam-Status
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Start-Time
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-UID
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-URL
bayes_ignore_header X-Barracuda-Virus-Alert
bayes_ignore_header X-BeenThere
bayes_ignore_header X-Cloud-Security
bayes_ignore_header X-Complaints-To
bayes_ignore_header X-Coremail-Antispam
bayes_ignore_header X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host
bayes_ignore_header X-GMX-Antispam
bayes_ignore_header X-GMX-Antivirus
bayes_ignore_header X-He-Spam
bayes_ignore_header X-Injected-Via-Gmane
bayes_ignore_header X-Ironport
bayes_ignore_header X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered
bayes_ignore_header X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result
bayes_ignore_header X-IronPort-AV
bayes_ignore_header X-Klms-Anti
bayes_ignore_header X-Klms-Antispam
bayes_ignore_header X-Kse-Anti
bayes_ignore_header X-Loom-IP
bayes_ignore_header X-Mailman-Version
bayes_ignore_header X-Mozilla-Keys
bayes_ignore_header X-Mozilla-Status
bayes_ignore_header X-Mozilla-Status2
bayes_ignore_header X-No-Relay
bayes_ignore_header X-PerlMx-Virus-Scanned
bayes_ignore_header X-PROLinux-SpamCheck
bayes_ignore_header X-ServerMaster-MailScanner
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Check-By
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Checker-Version
bayes_ignore_header X-SpamExperts-Domain
bayes_ignore_header X-SpamExperts-Outgoing-Class
bayes_ignore_header X-SpamExperts-Outgoing-Evidence
bayes_ignore_header X-SpamExperts-Username
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Flag
bayes_ignore_header X-SPAM-FLAG
bayes_ignore_header X-SpamInfo
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Level
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Processed
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Report
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Score
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Score-Int
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Status
bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Threshold
bayes_ignore_header X-UI-Filterresults
bayes_ignore_header X-UI-Loop
bayes_ignore_header X-UI-Out-Filterresults
bayes_ignore_header X-Univie-Virus-Scan
bayes_ignore_header X-VirusChecked
bayes_ignore_header X-Virus-Checker-Version
bayes_ignore_header X-Virus-Scanned
bayes_ignore_header X-Virus-Scanner-Version
bayes_ignore_header X-Virus-Status

> =========================================================================
> Received: from mail.com ([190.237.242.198])
>         by colo10.roaringpenguin.com with ESMTP id s93JmajB021470
>         for <redac...@example.com>; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:48:39 -0400
> Return-Path: <americanexpr...@welcome.aexp.com>
> Delivered-To: <redac...@example.com>
> X-Virus-Scanned: OK
> X-MessageSniffer-Scan-Result: 0
> X-MessageSniffer-Rules: 0-0-0-19882-c
> X-CMAE-Scan-Result: 0
> X-Spam-Threshold: 95
> X-Spam-Score: 0
> X-Spam-Flag: NO
> X-Virus-Scanned: OK
> X-MessageSniffer-Scan-Result: 0
> X-MessageSniffer-Rules: 0-0-0-19849-c
> X-CMAE-Scan-Result: 0
> X-Orig-To: <redac...@example.com>
> X-Originating-Ip: [209.67.98.59]
> Received: from SEFE63.seaprod.com (unknown [192.168.72.11])
>         by mailsea.docusign.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id KQAF5JDDV4IK
>         for <redac...@example.com>; Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:48:44 -0500
> X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mailsea.docusign.net JQ9N42F3MTC8
> Received: from docusign.net ([127.0.0.1]) by SEFE19.seaprod.com with 
> Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.17514);
>          Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:48:44 -0500
> Sender: "American Express" <americanexpr...@welcome.aexp.com>
> Reply-To: "American Express" <americanexpr...@welcome.aexp.com>
> From: "American Express" <americanexpr...@welcome.aexp.com>
> To: <redac...@example.com>
> Message-ID: <2sui4otn561x0wm7252lx58t61e...@welcome.aexp.com>
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:48:44 -0500
> Subject: Security Concern on Your American Express Account
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
>         boundary="----=_NextPart_FFTENOOC_L24J_U12E_AEA3_LA0JA0R78GGI"
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:48:44 -0500 
> FILETIME=[61006395:87205310]

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