[ABE.pm] mail problems

[Faber J. Fedor]

On 17/05/07 21:44 -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> * "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2007-05-17T21:06:51]
> > Alice logons to her AOL account from home in the morning and sends me an
> > email.  Later, at work, she logons to AOL, finds out that her email to
> > me has been rejected by my server as spam.  She thens forwards the email
> > to me and it gets through. WTF?
> 
> I'd need to know more about the rejecting server's configuration.  

You want a login? :-)  It's my mail server doing the rejecting. Postfix
with AmaVisD using ClamAV and SA.

> It's unusual
> for mail to be rejected based on SpamAssassin scores, as SA is usually used
> after acceptance to determine whether or not (and where) to deliver a message.
> To use it for rejection, you'd have to do "accept then send DSN" which is
> obnoxious.

With Amavis, you do accept the email.  Wanna see the maillog? Postfix
decides whether or not to accept the email, passes it to AmaVisD which
runs SA and ClamAV on it and, if accepted, passes it to another instance
of Postfix which delivers the email to (in this case) procmail,
otherwise it gets quarantined and bounced . My local box then POPs it
down and runs it through a local version of SA.

And #$%#$ spam STILL gets through! 

> >  HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16=1.047, HTML_MESSAGE=3, MIME_QP_LONG_LINE=0.039,
> >  NO_REAL_NAME=3]
> 
> What's the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY rule?  HTML with only image tags?  

HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16     BODY: HTML: images with 1200-1600 bytes of words

Applicable only to this message (she threw in two pieces of clip art)
but the problem has been appearing since she started emailing me
earlier this week.

> Perhaps the forward contained text.

Don't think so.  mutt shows text in the forward and the body, but
looking at the email with vi shows everything that is sent (?) as text
is also sent as HTML.

I'm turning off fetchmail tonight so the local SA doesn't overwrite the
headers.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.

-- 
 
Regards,
 
Faber Fedor
President
Linux New Jersey, Inc.
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800-706-0701

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