I don't know of this is due to the mail "upgrade" here at Netcom, or a
failure of procmail.
I have a scoring recipe to test the "spammness" of a message, add the
score to the messages headers, and then if a positive score, file it as
junk - negative scores get put in my folder for e-mail that is read when
time permits.
The problem is that since the begining of Netcom's mail woes, some
definate spam is being filtered as non-spam. I thought my scoring was a
little leniant, and tightened it to accomadate some new twists.
But today when I was testing some changes to my filters (sent 5 forged
e-mails) one was passed as a non-spam. It had a positive score. This is
what is failing:
VAL=$=
:0fwh
| $FORMAIL -I "X-score: $VAL"
:0:
* $ $=^0
junk-box
And this is the message headers that passed:
Return-Path: <satan(_at_)hel(_dot_)corp>
Received: from hell.corp (wotan(_at_)netcom13(_dot_)netcom(_dot_)com
[192.100.81.125]) by
netcom13.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom)
id JAA08890; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:01:37 -0700
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:01:37 -0700
X-Post: yes
From: satan(_at_)hel(_dot_)corp (Wotan)
To: wotan(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com
Message-Id: <976211940(_dot_)AA12003(_at_)hell(_dot_)corp>
Subject: plm
X-score: 149
I don't have a verbose log since I try to assume I did everything right
the first time - and haven't been able to repeat this failure since.
--
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
-- Laurence J. Peter