Bug 1864 - Deduction for phpBB notifications
Summary: Deduction for phpBB notifications
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: 2.53
Hardware: Other other
: P5 normal
Target Milestone: 2.60
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2003-05-06 09:04 UTC by Robert J. Accettura
Modified: 2003-05-24 06:37 UTC (History)
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Description Robert J. Accettura 2003-05-06 09:04:43 UTC 
phpBB notifications get aweful close to 5.0 (4.8)...

If the admin adds anything really to the footer of the emails, it can get over 5
and go to spam jail.  

I suggest a deduction.  They like most other BB's have a nice pattern to them.
Comment 1 Robert J. Accettura 2003-05-06 09:06:17 UTC 
Created attachment 938 [details]
A sample email
Comment 2 Maxime Ritter 2003-05-06 10:06:09 UTC 
That's also a phpBB issue : "To: " header empty is empty !! I guess that some other people do spam filtering with this. They should fix this.  They might also want use a real name in the "From: " header, and cut the lines at 72 characters. I am also curious about knowing why they use a microsoft-header (X-MSMail-Priority)...
Comment 3 Robert J. Accettura 2003-05-06 11:32:13 UTC 
Granted.  

But there is a clear pattern to their emails that can be given a deduction (if
all elements exist) so that it gives the notifications a deduction, and doesn't
effect SA's ability to catch real spam.

The subject and body of the email is enough.  No need to really use the headers.
Comment 4 Robert J. Accettura 2003-05-18 11:52:39 UTC 
I addressed this with the phpBB people:

http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=1751

Perhaps get a deduction to go alongside others like yahoo groups, bugzilla etc.
Comment 5 Theo Van Dinter 2003-05-24 13:28:36 UTC 
this screams "spammer, please forge me!"
Comment 6 Robert J. Accettura 2003-05-24 14:37:41 UTC 
Latest from the phpBB guys:

" Already addressed a while ago... will appear in 2.0.5. Anyway, there is no
guarantee that this 'fix' is working for spam assassin, since the To header is
now a non-disclosure tag to assure RFC compliance."