does the X-Bogosity line mess up spamicity calculations?
Trevor Smith
trevor at haligonian.com
Thu Aug 5 04:48:55 CEST 2004
On August 4, 2004 9:46 pm, David Relson wrote:
> Good question!
>
> Bogofilter checks for the "spam header line" (as it's officially known)
> and ignores it.
OK, so any tokens appearing on a line that starts with "X-Bogosity" (or
whatever token you have bogofilter set to insert on the "spam header line")
are ignored and never entered in the database?
> This prevents a spammer from deceiving bogofilter. As
I don't see how it could be used to fool bogofilter. Can you explain the
strategy?
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