Genuine mail from Hotmail hitting MALFORMED_FREEMAIL

[Niamh Holding <ni...@fullbore.co.uk>]

Hello

Sample at http://pastebin.com/mEFpUeS5

-- 
Best regards,
 Niamh                          mailto:niamh@fullbore.co.uk

Re: Genuine mail from Hotmail hitting MALFORMED_FREEMAIL

[Niamh Holding <ni...@fullbore.co.uk>]

Hello RW,

Sunday, January 25, 2015, 10:55:59 PM, you wrote:

R> There's not much that can be done about this other than rescore or
R> remove it entirely. 

But this rule and MISSING_HEADERS combine to score 3.8 just because the
sender put all the recipients in BCC

Seems a touch high for this.

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Best regards,
 Niamh                            mailto:niamh@fullbore.co.uk

Re: Genuine mail from Hotmail hitting MALFORMED_FREEMAIL

[Reindl Harald <h....@thelounge.net>]

Am 25.01.2015 um 23:55 schrieb RW:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:19:02 +0000
> Niamh Holding wrote:
>> Sample at http://pastebin.com/mEFpUeS5
>
> There's not much that can be done about this other than rescore or
> remove it entirely.
>
> It's picking up on the combination of FREEMAIL_FROM and a missing
> "From" header. Since most clients allow recipient addresses to be all
> BCC, it's not necessarily looking for anything that's malformed, or
> particularly unusual, it's just playing the percentages

you meant "missing To-header" :-)

a message without a To-header can't be important at all
a message without a Subject-header can't be important at all
a message without a Date-header can't be important
a message without a Message-ID-header can't be important
and so on.....

if it was important maybe the fool on the other side should consider not 
let it appear like bot-junk and to provoke: a message from a freemailer 
can't be that important at all

Re: Genuine mail from Hotmail hitting MALFORMED_FREEMAIL

[RW <rw...@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:19:02 +0000
Niamh Holding wrote:

> 
> Hello
> 
> Sample at http://pastebin.com/mEFpUeS5
> 

There's not much that can be done about this other than rescore or
remove it entirely. 

It's picking up on the combination of FREEMAIL_FROM and a missing
"From" header. Since most clients allow recipient addresses to be all
BCC, it's not necessarily looking for anything that's malformed, or
particularly unusual, it's just playing the percentages.