mass processing with mutt and Fcc

[David Relson]

At 07:47 AM 4/1/03, Shawn Barnhart wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Relson" <relson at osagesoftware.com>
>
> > Greetings & welcome.  I'm skipping the mutt question because I use Eudora,
> > not mutt.  As to adding a bogofilter header to your outgoing messages, the
> > answer is "Don't bother."  Since headers can easily be forged, incoming
> > bogofilter header lines are deemed suspicious and bogofilter deletes them.
>
>That's good to know.  I was wondering what would happen if spammers decided
>to start throwing in their own bogus bogofilter headers.  It doesn't seem
>like their messages would pass scrutiny to begin with (even the stock
>bogofilter .procmailrc has them go through it before being evaluated by
>procmail for their bogosity score).

Shawn,

Bogofilter looks at nearly all the tokens of a message.  Some stuff is 
ignored - for example message IDs, because they tend to be unique, and 
innards of html tags and comments.

Given a significant number of tokens in a message, no single token will 
make bogofilter think the message is ham (or spam).  So bogofilter doesn't 
_need_ to delete X-Bogosity lines.  Deleting them is very useful for your 
MUA's filters.

David