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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Peter Matulis <pe...@yahoo.ca> on 2006/12/13 17:47:19 UTC

Why is my yahoo mail being tagged by DCC ?

I have sent 2 emails to my personal mail gateway running SA and I see
that they have both been tagged by DCC.  How can this be?

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Re: Meta GENERATOR tag

Posted by Theo Van Dinter <fe...@apache.org>.
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:56:09PM +0000, Justin Mason wrote:
> with the qp-encoded "=3D"?  without, it seems iffy, but in
> my corpus it's a different matter with.

I have both, from a quick glance it looks like the majority use qp,
but either way I think it's a bad rule.

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Re: Meta GENERATOR tag

Posted by Theo Van Dinter <fe...@apache.org>.
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 12:44:48PM +0000, Justin Mason wrote:
> > What is this:
> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=3DGENERATOR>

It's a header put in by what creates the HTML.  In this case, some Microsoft
product, I'd guess FrontPage or something.  Searching around for a minute on
Google produces things like:

"MSHTML 5.50 is the DLL for HTML editing that comes with Internet Explorer 5.5
(the version number changes with the version of IE installed). This means that
the author created that page with either FrontPage, Visual InterDev, or some
other product (most likely made by Microsoft) that uses IE as its design
view."

> > I have been putting a score of 10 on this, because it seemed never to be

Ouch.  Not a good idea imo, but it really depends on what kind of mails you
receive.

> > the radar. However, I've seen a few non-spams now that have this. It

Yep.  It's the generator, not necessarily a spam sign.

> interesting -- I have no FPs for that. nice ;)

I have a ton, a majority of hamtraps.

> I've put it in for testing -- if anyone spots an FP, I'd like a copy
> if possible...

I can send you a bunch of them if you really want, but IMO it's just a bad rule.

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Meta GENERATOR tag

Posted by Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au>.
Hi there.

What is this:

<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=3DGENERATOR>

I have been putting a score of 10 on this, because it seemed never to be
in non-spam. It catches a LOT of spam that otherwise would slip under
the radar. However, I've seen a few non-spams now that have this. It
seems to happen when people send a message with both plain text and HTML
from Outlook. Is that particularly common? I don't have many
correspondents that do that.

Regards, K.

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Re: Why is my yahoo mail being tagged by DCC ?

Posted by Peter Matulis <pe...@yahoo.ca>.
--- Richard Ozer <ro...@ois-online.com> wrote:

> Be careful about the content.  If, for instance, you create a message
> that has only the word "test" in it, DCC will pick it up.  Were you
> using short phrases or single words?  
> 
> I ran into the exact same thing yesterday when I was testing out a
> new SA box, and that was the cause.
> 
> RO
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Peter Matulis 
>   To: users@SpamAssassin.apache.org 
>   Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:47 AM
>   Subject: Why is my yahoo mail being tagged by DCC ?
> 
> 
>   I have sent 2 emails to my personal mail gateway running SA and I
> see
>   that they have both been tagged by DCC.  How can this be?

That's exactly what happened.  Thanks for that.


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Re: Why is my yahoo mail being tagged by DCC ?

Posted by Richard Ozer <ro...@ois-online.com>.
Be careful about the content.  If, for instance, you create a message that has only the word "test" in it, DCC will pick it up.  Were you using short phrases or single words?  

I ran into the exact same thing yesterday when I was testing out a new SA box, and that was the cause.

RO
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Matulis 
  To: users@SpamAssassin.apache.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:47 AM
  Subject: Why is my yahoo mail being tagged by DCC ?


  I have sent 2 emails to my personal mail gateway running SA and I see
  that they have both been tagged by DCC.  How can this be?

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