[MlMt] Junk folder gets messages when Sieve unchecked

Ralph Alvy ralph at ralphalvy.com
Mon Jul 26 10:13:44 EDT 2021


But Fastmail has its own folder for that. It's called Spam. And it did not put it in that folder.

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, at 7:51 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Cole
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