[pmmail-list] SpamAssassin header bloat

[Brian Morrison]

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:24:53 -0700 (MST) in
auto-000000590916@sohnen-moe.com "James Moe" <jimoe@sohnen-moe.com>
wrote:

> >
> >I run SA myself, it is set to report_header and terse_report, so it
> >adds exactly the same amount to my mail as appeared on an earlier
> >mail to the list.
> >
>   I complained to BMTMicro about this and the sysadmin changed the
>   level of verbosity. 
> It has reduced the spam in the headers added by SpamAssassin to
> "rather verbose":
> 
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0
> 	tests=IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,
> 	      REPLY_WITH_QUOTES
> 	version=2.54
> X-Spam-Level: 
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.54 (1.174.2.17-2003-05-11-exp)
> X-Spam-Report:   ---- Start SpamAssassin results
>   -4.50 points, 5 required;
>   * -0.5 -- Has a In-Reply-To header
>   * -2.5 -- Contains a PGP-signed message (signature attached)
>   * -0.5 -- Has a valid-looking References header
>   * -0.5 -- BODY: Contains what looks like a quoted email text
>   * -0.5 -- Reply with quoted text
>   ---- End of SpamAssassin results

Seems like my own SA removes the previous SA headers then, and replaces
them with its own.

> 
>   Personally I'd have thought only the first line ("X-Spam-Status:
>   No") would be enough 
> for production systems.

Depends how you filter, personally I don't use the X-Spam-Status: header
and instead use the X-Spam-Level: header because it makes it much easier
to spot the number of hits. Different accounts use different thresholds
for action, it means the main SA hits level can be left constant.

But it's all personal preference isn't it.

If the list is getting this sort of stuff in the headers I would suggest
they switch to using:

report_header 1

use_terse_report 1

in the SA local.cf file

-- 

Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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