Bogofilter accuracy plummets starting around March 10, 2010

[Thomas Anderson]

That appears to be a bug.  Can you send me the full email or at least 
the full header?

On 4/5/2010 9:36 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> Thomas Anderson wrote:
>> Also, in the end, spamitarium doesn't throw away any of the forged
>> received line info... So information was ADDED, not removed,
>> by spamitarium.
>>
> I did a little playing around with spamitarium, and it appears that it
> /does /throw away useful information from /valid/ Received lines.  For
> example, I fed a recent valid message through spamitarium with this
> valid Received line in it:
>
> Received: from omta01-mdp.westchester.pa.bo.comcast.net ([76.96.53.11])
>        by qmta02-mdp.westchester.pa.bo.comcast.net with comcast
>        id 1u2R1e0010EWbPw01u407n; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:04:00 +0000
>
> and it spit back this:
>
> Received: from omta01-mdp.west 76.96.53.11 as36733
>          by qmta02-mdp.westchester.pa; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:04:00 +0000
>
> So the host names in the received line are no longer FQDNs (in violation
> of RFCs, I believe) and the MTA queue ID has been discarded.
>
> Both of these are of concern.  The latter is a problem if there is an
> issue with mail delivery and I need to contact a transit site about it
> (and yes, I've done this on numerous occasions in the past).  If I can
> give them the queue ID assigned to the message by their MTA, then they
> can find it easily in their logs.  If I can't, I might as well forget
> any possibility of them being willing to help me.
>
>    jik
>
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