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Annoyance in Mail.app Smart Mailboxes

Paul Westbrook | 05 June, 2006 22:42

I wanted to find out how many non-spam messages were marked as spam by DSPAM, before I increase the DSPAM score.  I thought that a Smart Mailbox would be the best way to see the list of the messages.  The problem problem is that it is not possible to create a Smart Mailbox based from an arbitrary header.

It is possible to create a filter to copy the messages to a new mailbox from any header, but that mailbox is not automatically updated when messages are added or deleted from the main mailboxes.

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email spam leaking though

Paul Westbrook | 05 June, 2006 17:19

Recently I have seen a trickle of email spam that have been getting though my spam filters.  These messages are relatively small plain text messages. 

From: 	  lacretes@____.com
Subject: 	Lets keep in touch
Date: 	June 5, 2006 2:31:05 PM PDT
To: 	  mail@paulstimesink.com
Cc: 	  paul@paulstimesink.com
Reply-To: 	  lacretes@____.com

Chance informed me that u were looking for a place to get ur stuff.
http://www.________.org/op/ the place then for sure. is avoid injured
only

willing at work become to what and being
Sandy

The Bayesian filter is the seeing this as 50% likely to be spam, while DSPAM is correctly marking this as spam

X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.963 tagged_above=-99 required=4.9 tests=BAYES_50, DSPAM_SPAM, URIBL_JP_SURBL

Maybe, I will increase the score associated with DSPAM, or find a rule on the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium that will catch these.

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