spammer tricks

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Mon Sep 22 00:34:09 CEST 2003


On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:18:35 -0400
David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2003 16:42:36 -0400
> Tom Anderson <tanderso at oac-design.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just thought of something sneaky that spammers may employ as
> > bogofilter gains a larger foothold on mail servers... add their own
> > X-Bogosity header indicating it is not spam.  This could really
> > confuse whatever procmail recipe or client filtering one may use
> > after passing through bogofilter.  Could we add a pre-parse removal
> > of any existing X-Bogosity headers directly to bogofilter?
> > 
> > Tom
> 
> Tom,
> 
> Sorry, we can't add that.  It's already present :-)
> 
> David

Tom,

Additionally, the config file has an option for setting the
"spam_header" (as it's called) you want.  For example, you could use
"Tom:" and I could use "X-David's-Score:".  

David




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