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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Dean Shaw <De...@sas.com> on 2007/04/09 16:45:36 UTC
Question about Spam Assassin and Google Analytics
We recently installed Google Analytics on our site and would like to incorporate the tracking on our HTML-based email campaigns. On our first attempt Spam Assassin flagged our email as 'porn'. The only different factor was the inclusion of GA code in the HTML of the email.
Has anyone encountered this issue?
Dean
Re: Question about Spam Assassin and Google Analytics
Posted by "John D. Hardin" <jh...@impsec.org>.
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
> Dean Shaw wrote:
> > We recently installed Google Analytics on our site and would like to
> > incorporate the tracking on our HTML-based email campaigns.
>
> Regardless of that issue, you do realise that putting Javascript
> into emails is _wrong_ ?
Agreed.
Dean, you've probably come to the wrong place for advice on how to
slip web bugs past antispam and email security filters.
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Re: Question about Spam Assassin and Google Analytics
Posted by "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <mi...@blacknight.ie>.
Dean Shaw wrote:
> We recently installed Google Analytics on our site and would like to
> incorporate the tracking on our HTML-based email campaigns. On our
> first attempt Spam Assassin flagged our email as ‘porn’. The only
> different factor was the inclusion of GA code in the HTML of the email.
>
>
>
> Has anyone encountered this issue?
Regardless of that issue, you do realise that putting Javascript into
emails is _wrong_ ?
Though I guess that actually answers your query ....
You can't put Javascript into HTML emails without facing the
consequences ....
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Re: Question about Spam Assassin and Google Analytics
Posted by Kelson <ke...@speed.net>.
Dean Shaw wrote:
> We recently installed Google Analytics on our site and would like to
> incorporate the tracking on our HTML-based email campaigns. On our
> first attempt Spam Assassin flagged our email as ‘porn’. The only
> different factor was the inclusion of GA code in the HTML of the email.
Are you sure it was SpamAssassin that flagged it with such a blanket
category? SA usually provides either more finely-grained details --
namely, which rules are being triggered -- or just a simple yes/no and
total score.
The default SA setup has rules to detect porn, but they only contribute
to classification as spam. There isn't a "porn" classification.
What rules is it hitting?
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