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Author: Michael Johnson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] ACL to reject spam
On Jul 15, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Dominic Cleal wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:52:14 -0400
> Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
>
>> You should be able to easily craft a test message which scores over
>> 100 in SA by setting up a test rule that matches a particular string
>> in the subject in your local.cf.
>
> Or use the GTUBE test, which is built into SpamAssassin:
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/


GTUBE rejected appropriately, but just a few minutes ago, the Pottery
Barn email came through again. GTUBE scored at 1000. The PB email
scored:

>>>> X-Spam-Status:     Yes (101.8/3.0) SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10)  
>>>> (++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++) ---- Start  
>>>> of SpamAssassin Report *  100 USER_IN_BLACKLIST From: address is  
>>>> in the user's black-list *  1.2 HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02 BODY: HTML  
>>>> has a low ratio of text to image *      area *  0.6 HTML_90_100  
>>>> BODY: Message is 90% to 100% HTML *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML  
>>>> included in message ---- End of SpamAssassin Report


Strangely enough, even though I changed USER_IN_BLACKLIST to be 50,
it still scored 100. I guess I changed the wrong one.

-Michael

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