I'm getting a spamassassin party here

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 26 June 2018 02:50:01 Cameron Simpson wrote:

> On 24Jun2018 17:03, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> >Greetings list;
> >
> >Generally spamassassin only gets picky about this occasionally, but
> > for the past several hours its working overtime on python list
> > messages, with the major problem being the servers time stamp, a day
> > or more in the past. Anyboy ever hear of ntpd?
> >-- Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Could you eyeball some of these problematic messages please?
>
> I've been noticing a swathe of messages in the past few days with
> From: headers like this:
>
>   From: "Steven D'Aprano" <steven.d'aprano at 1:261/38.remove-ij1-this>
>
> where the From: has been badly mangled, I think by a usenet->list
> gateway. The Path: on these messages looks like this (give or take):
>
>   Path:
> uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!n
>ews.snarked.org!news.bbs.nz!.POSTED.184-155-113-241.cpe.cableone.net!no
>t-for-mail
>
> I'd be interested to know if there is significant overlap between my
> problematic messages and yours.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>

Stevens messages are among the most frequent spamassassin triggers. The 
scoring diff that tips the scales is the time error:
 1.0 DATE_IN_PAST_12_24     Date: is 12 to 24 hours before Received: date

There is also this:
0.5 APOSTROPHE_FROM        From address contains an apostrophe

This list commits a whole menu of errors that spamassassin doesn't like.

The whole list from a different message:

Content analysis details:   (5.6 points, 5.1 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 3.5 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
                            [score: 1.0000]
 0.0 HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS From and EnvelopeFrom 2nd level mail
                            domains are different
 1.0 DATE_IN_PAST_12_24     Date: is 12 to 24 hours before Received: date
 0.2 BAYES_999              BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100%
                            [score: 1.0000]
 0.8 RDNS_NONE              Delivered to internal network by a host with 
no rDNS
 0.0 T_DKIM_INVALID         DKIM-Signature header exists but is not valid

Some of these should be fixable by proper configuration of the 
listserver, but don't confuse me with an expert. I am subscribed to the 
list.

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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