filter mode and hints.

[michael at optusnet.com.au]

<printer at moveupdate.com> writes:
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> Secondly, it seems to me that there's a lot of
> hints in spam emails that bogofilter is ignoring.
> Spamassassin checks for a large number of email
> features (like 'may be forged' in received lines, 
> and large amounts of whitespace in subject lines)
> that are used to decide if an email is spam or
> not.
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> I don't think using 'may be forged' is a good indicator. I used 
> to filter for that in procmail but found that the false positives 
> where well over 25%

Indeed. The point isn't that it is reliable. The idea is that it's a
hint. Just like finding the word 'spam' doesn't mean it certainly
spam, just that it's more likely to be spam.

> I did find that looking for 5 or more spaces or a tab in the 
> subject line worked out very well.

That does indeed make it VERY likely to be spam. :)

Michael.