[pmmail-list] SpamAssassin header bloat

[James Moe]

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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:10:52 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>
>Not much extra stuff there really, and these days who can live without
>spam filtering?
>
  Filtering is not the issue. It's the large chunk of unnecessary text added to the 
header. It is a waste, pure and simple. All that crud is only added to *incoming* mail 
for initial evaluation of SpamAssassin's performance, to be turned off later. It is 
*not* supposed to be in outgoing mail.
  I, too, have a spam filter. Here is what it adds to my mail:

X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.15.3

  One line. That's it. Not the 10-20 lines SpamAssassin lards in.


  Here is what was in the header I received from your post:

X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0
	tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO
	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
  -1.00 points, 5 required;
  Message preview:
  On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:12:18 -0400 (EDT),
  Carl Gehr wrote: >> >>Could you please try to hold back the tears? We already can see 
you're >>in a desperate need for some decent hardware. > >I have quite good hardware. I 
just do not see any reason to WASTE what >I have with unnecessary GARBAGE that is of no 
value. [...] 
  Content analysis details:
  IN_REP_TO          (-0.5 points) Has a In-Reply-To header
  EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION  (-0.5 points) BODY: Contains what looks like an email attribution
  ---- End SpamAssassin results



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