option to not count header tokens

[David Relson]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:42:52 +0400
Dmitry wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My ignorelist.db grows every day, still I find more and more useless 
> header tokens hiding obvious spam. Spammers are smart. They mimic
> normal MUA headers. When the message body is short (3-5 words),
> headers often cause spams to be classified as ham in such way, that
> even marking this message as spam doesn't help.
> 
> My question is: Is it possible to make an option in the config to not 
> count any invisible header tokens?
>
> By the way, it was already discussed in the "Why strip headers?"
> thread 4 years ago:
> 
>  > Moreover, headers which do not directly influence the email in any
>  > functional way, nor are visible to the end-user in a standard
>  > graphical MUA, are highly likely to contain information which
>  > spammers think will detract from normal statistical filtering. It
>  > is therefore desireable to remove these elements, specifically
>  > X-headers, prior to filtering.  Spamitarium removes all invisible,
>  > non-functional header lines.
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry

Dmitry,

It sounds like you're asking for spamitarium.  If it does what you
want, use it.

Given that a script already seems to exist to do what you want, there's
no obvious reason to add code to bogofilter.

Regards,

David