Mail Delivery Failure

[Chris <cp...@embarqmail.com>]

I posted a message to the list showing how the spam containing % in the
subject scored on my system. A bit later checking my failed messages
folder I saw this:

This message was created automatically by the mail system (ecelerity).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

>>> users@spamassassin.apache.org (reading confirmation): 552 spam score
(12.0) exceeded threshold

All my post contained was my scores for the spam sample he posted. Any
reason how/why this happened? Here's the actual post:

http://pastebin.com/gSuHGqXa

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

[Chris <cp...@embarqmail.com>]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 08:25 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
> On 5/19/2010 6:08 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> >>
> >> All my post contained was my scores for the spam sample he posted. Any
> >> reason how/why this happened? Here's the actual post:
> >>
> >> http://pastebin.com/gSuHGqXa
> >>
> >
> >
> > The scores also contain URIs that were matched against URIBLs so any
> > email containing them will hit again as the "spammy" URIs are still
> > present albeit this time in the rule descriptions.
> >
> > At least you know your outbound spam filtering works ;)
> >
> >
> Actually it wasn't his outbound, it was Apache's inbound filtering.
> (yes, this list is SA scanned, we are just one of many lists on the
> Apache servers)

Thanks Matt so I guess from now on if I want to show someone scores I
got on their spam I should put it in pastebin and just put the link in.

-- 
Chris
KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

[Matt Kettler <mk...@verizon.net>]

On 5/19/2010 6:08 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>>
>> All my post contained was my scores for the spam sample he posted. Any
>> reason how/why this happened? Here's the actual post:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/gSuHGqXa
>>
>
>
> The scores also contain URIs that were matched against URIBLs so any
> email containing them will hit again as the "spammy" URIs are still
> present albeit this time in the rule descriptions.
>
> At least you know your outbound spam filtering works ;)
>
>
Actually it wasn't his outbound, it was Apache's inbound filtering.
(yes, this list is SA scanned, we are just one of many lists on the
Apache servers)

Re: Mail Delivery Failure

[Ned Slider <ne...@unixmail.co.uk>]

Chris wrote:
> 
> All my post contained was my scores for the spam sample he posted. Any
> reason how/why this happened? Here's the actual post:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/gSuHGqXa
> 


The scores also contain URIs that were matched against URIBLs so any 
email containing them will hit again as the "spammy" URIs are still 
present albeit this time in the rule descriptions.

At least you know your outbound spam filtering works ;)