[MlMt] Junk folder gets messages when Sieve unchecked

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Sun Jul 25 22:51:07 EDT 2021


On 2021-07-25 at 20:15:31 UTC-0400 (Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:15:31 -0700)
Ralph Alvy <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> I have no Inbox rules at all. Here are the Sieve relevant lines in the 
> raw message:
>
> X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 3.0
> X-Spam-known-sender: no
> X-Spam-sender-reputation: 500 (none)
> X-Spam-score: 7.2
> X-Spam-hits: HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS 0.248, 
> HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST 0.001,
>   HTML_MESSAGE 0.001, ME_HAS_VSSU 0.001, ME_SENDERREP_NEUTRAL 0.001,
>   RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE -0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001, SPF_PASS -0.001,
>   URIBL_DBL_ABUSE_SPAM 7, LANGUAGES en, BAYES_USED none, SA_VERSION 
> 3.4.2

That's a SpamAssassin header, added by the server. Your mail provider 
put that message in Junk, not MailMate. The total score of 7.2 is 
significantly above the default SA threshold score for spam (5.0) but 
the 'X-Spam-hits' itemization shows that almost entirely due to one 
issue: the "URIBL_DBL_ABUSE_SPAM" hit scored at 7. That hit indicates 
that there was a link in the message body whose domain is listed in the 
Spamhaus DBL list: https://www.spamhaus.org/dbl. It is rare for the DBL 
to list domains that are not exclusively used in spam, but it does 
happen.


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Bill Cole
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