[MlMt] More MailMate woes

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 20 Sep 2018, at 22:36, Randall Meadows wrote:

> Said SpamSieve drone was a completely new installation, so I don't 
> think it has anything to do with "leftover" data.  But what was 
> happening was, just about all messages were ending up in my Spam 
> mailbox, even messages I get regularly from senders that I've been 
> getting for years with no problem.
>
> I investigated further today, and every messages in the Spam mailbox 
> had these headers (inserted by DreamHost's anti-spam service, which I 
> am unable to disable):

It sounds like the most likely explanation for emails being moved to 
spam is DreamHost: 
https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/how-do-i-disable-the-anti-spam-filter/63746/32

> X-VR-STATUS:
> X-VR-SCORE:
> X-VR-SPAMCAUSE:

MailMate does not use these headers for anything. But you could use them 
in rules if you like, e.g., to do something like this:

	Condition: X-VR-Status is “Whitelisted”
	Action: Set Keyword “Not Junk”

See further below for why that might be useful. For the record, I have 
no idea how to get something on the whitelist on DreamHost.

The headers above are described by DreamHost 
[here](https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215686647-Technical-details-on-how-Anti-spam-filters-work).

> The values varied, of course, but the one constant was, every message 
> that had a non-zero X-VR-SCORE (which was most of them, like 90+%) was 
> moved to the spam mailbox.  Now, after disabling the drone, I'm 
> getting all the messages filtered (locally) into the correct 
> mailboxes, but still all those non-zero scored messages have the 
> yellow header with
> [Mark as Not Junk] [ Load Once] [ Move to Junk]
> buttons.
>
> I can only assume that MailMate is heeding these X-VR-* headers and 
> considering every message with a non-zero score as "spammy", yielding 
> the yellow banner and buttons.  Is this correct?

No, MailMate isn't really telling you that it thinks the email is junk. 
It is telling you that the email contains external references (most 
likely to images). This is the image blocking feature configured in the 
Security preferences pane. This is about email tracking which is not 
only done by spammers. Nevertheless, a feature of this system is that 
MailMate can be told to fetch images if the email has been explicitly 
marked as “Not Junk”. In other words, an email has 3 junk-related 
states: Unknown, Junk, Not Junk.

> If so...has there been a recent change in MM that might affect this?

No, I don't think so.

> (I can't recall when I last updated, but this issue "coincidentally" 
> started after my aforementioned SpamSieve drone problem, but since 
> I've now eliminated SpamSieve from the equation, now I I'm sure what 
> to think.
>
> I'm about to completely nuke my MM installation and start from 
> scratch, just in case I've mucked up something unbeknownst to me, so 
> if anyone has ideas that can save me from that pain, I'd appreciate 
> it!

Don't do that. As far as I can tell the main problem is DreamHost 
spam-filtering and maybe your image blocking settings in the Security 
preferences pane (maybe you had this disabled in the past).

I hope this helps.

-- 
Benny
https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/
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