Bug 7712 - Emails containing .biz domain in URL considered spam
Summary: Emails containing .biz domain in URL considered spam
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Score Generation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Undefined
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2019-05-03 08:03 UTC by martynas.kraujalis
Modified: 2019-05-06 07:54 UTC (History)
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Description martynas.kraujalis 2019-05-03 08:03:26 UTC 
Created attachment 5652 [details]
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Hello,

I'm a senior software developer in company called DealLink.biz. We provide B2B services for companies to publish their business tenders and other companies to submit offers to them. Our website is here: https://deallink.biz

Our system sends invitations to our tenders by emails. We send them only to subscribed users and we really care about reputation of our emails because we want to have a good deliverability of our emails.

But recently we noticed that our emails are mostly considered as SPAM and SpamAssasin takes -2.4 score because our emails contains URL's to our domain which has .biz top level domain. Rule sounds like this:
URI_NO_WWW_BIZ_CGI - CGI in .biz TLD other than third-level "www"
I've found that .biz domain rule was already removed long time ago:
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5246
But maybe it was recently added again? What are the reasons of such rule? How can we solve this?

I attach mail-tester.com report screenshot which shows that our emails got -2.4 score because of this rule.

Awaiting your response/feed back/comments.
Martynas Kraujalis
Senior developer at DealLink.biz
work email address: it@deallink.biz
Comment 1 RW 2019-05-03 14:29:23 UTC 
Presumably, a long time ago, a spammer was buying a lot of cheap .biz domains and using URLs of that form. The rule hasn't been rescored in 10 years, and is behaving very poorly in current testing - it should go.
Comment 2 Giovanni Bechis 2019-05-03 22:51:34 UTC 
The rule has been created long ago with bz3896.
Disabled the force-publish with commit r1858589.
Comment 3 martynas.kraujalis 2019-05-06 07:54:12 UTC 
Thank you!