bogofilter -p doesn't always add header

[Matthias Andree]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Barry Gould wrote:

> Hi, in 0.7.3, the X-Spam-Status header is not always added.
> 
> e.g.
> #bogofilter -p
> hello
> ^D
> hello
> #
> 
> note no header was added.

Works in 0.7.5.

> I seem to recall that bogofilter -p is designed to insert the X-Spam-Status 
> header before the Subject header, but ISTM that it fails to do it if there 
> is no Subject header.
> 
> ISTM that spammers could omit a subject in order to bypass bogofilter -p.

Yes, former bogofilter versions allowed that, bogofilter has been fixed
since.

> Perhaps it would be better to just add the header to the beginning of the 
> message?

The X-Bogosity: header (as it is called nowadays, but you can change
that at compile time) is currently added as the last of the headers.

-- 
Matthias Andree