Re: Trouble with VBounce

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

actually, the message simply isn't in a format known to the ruleset.
The problem is that it doesn't contain a bounced message at all...
just the bounce, and no copy of the original message.

Since there's no copy of the original, there's no way to tell what message
it was in reply to, and whether it was in response to a fake or real mail.
So vbounce won't fire on it.

--j.

Erik Dasque writes:
> Anyone ? Do you get the same analysis with the attached message that I got
> ? Is my VBounce setup wrong then ?
> Erik
> (did my message get ignored because of the text attachment ?)
> On May 12, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Erik Dasque wrote:
> 
>   Hi all,
>   I am having trouble with VBounce. I think I followed the FAQ to the
>   letter yet most of the backscatter still ends up in my mailbox. For
>   example, if I analyze the attached sample email (which I received this
>   morning), I get the following:
>   [ .... ]
>   Spam detection software, running on the system
>   "li9-234.members.linode.com", has
>   identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
>   has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
>   similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
>   root for details.
>   Content preview:  Your message did not reach some or all of the intended
>   recipients.
>      The e-mail account does not exist. Check the e-mail address or
>   contact the
>      recipient directly to confirm the address. "Devon Roy" <jh...@cov.com>
>   [...]
>      
>   Content analysis details:   (-2.0 points, 3.0 required)
>    pts rule name              description
>   ---- ----------------------
>   --------------------------------------------------
>   -2.3 BAYES_00               BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
>                               [score: 0.0000]
>    0.3 AWL                    AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list
>   As you see, no bounce related analysis. However some messages get
>   filtered out as bounce (just not the one attached and quite a few of its
>   bretheren) which tells me it's at least working a bit :
> 
>   X-Spam-Report:  *  1.9 URIBL_AB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the AB
>   SURBL blocklist *      [URIs: bambinidimanina.org] *  1.5 URIBL_JP_SURBL
>   Contains an URL listed in the JP SURBL blocklist *      [URIs:
>   bambinidimanina.org] *  2.0 URIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the
>   URIBL blacklist *      [URIs: bambinidimanina.org] *  0.0 BAYES_50 BODY:
>   Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% *      [score: 0.5000] *  0.1
>   CRBOUNCE_MESSAGE Challenge-response bounce message *  0.1
>   ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE Message is some kind of bounce message
> 
>   Any idea for me ?
>   Erik
>   <sample-vbounce.txt>