mailman commands bouncing because they have an empty body?

mailman commands bouncing because they have an empty body?

[Geoff Keating]

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I don't think spam filtering should apply to subscribe confirmation  
messages, even if they do look like spam because they have an empty  
body.

The full message I sent is also attached below.

Begin forwarded message:
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@releasedominatrix.com (Mail Delivery System)
> Date: 24 March 2008 7:13:15 PM
> To: geoffk@geoffk.org
> Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
>
> This is the mail system at host dragaera.releasedominatrix.com.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
>                   The mail system
>
> <gcc-announce-sc.1206410750.egcomjjibejicoooclhe-geoffk=geoffk.org@gcc.gnu.org 
> >:
>    host gcc.gnu.org[209.132.176.174] said: 552 spam score exceeded  
> threshold
>    (in reply to end of DATA command)
> Reporting-MTA: dns; dragaera.releasedominatrix.com
> X-Postfix-Queue-ID: C1ECC33CFA1
> X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; geoffk@geoffk.org
> Arrival-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:12:47 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; gcc-announce-sc.1206410750.egcomjjibejicoooclhe-geoffk=geoffk.org@gcc.gnu.org
> Original-Recipient: rfc822;gcc-announce-sc.1206410750.egcomjjibejicoooclhe-geoffk=geoffk.org@gcc.gnu.org
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Remote-MTA: dns; gcc.gnu.org
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 552 spam score exceeded threshold
>
> From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
> Date: 24 March 2008 7:12:46 PM
> To: gcc-announce-sc.1206410750.egcomjjibejicoooclhe-geoffk=geoffk.org@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: confirm subscribe to gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org
>
>
>
>
>

I originally sent something very much like:

> Message-Id: <3B24B3A3-41D1-4631-9D98-2CA4C0FB6D66@geoffk.org>
> From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
> To: gcc-announce-sc.1206410750.egcomjjibejicoooclhe-geoffk=geoffk.org@gcc.gnu.org
> In-Reply-To: <1206410750.606.ezmlm@gcc.gnu.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset=US-ASCII;
> 	format=flowed
> X-Smtp-Server: mail.releasedominatrix.com:geoffk
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2)
> Subject: Re: confirm subscribe to gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:12:46 -0700
> References: <1206410750.606.ezmlm@gcc.gnu.org>
>
>

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Re: mailman commands bouncing because they have an empty body?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> From: MAILER-DAEMON@releasedominatrix.com [...]

This spam stuff is care-of cgf, but I can say thanks for putting a
smile on my face with that domain name blast from the past.

- FChE

Re: mailman commands bouncing because they have an empty body?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:06:40AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>Hi -
>
>> From: MAILER-DAEMON@releasedominatrix.com [...]
>
>This spam stuff is care-of cgf, but I can say thanks for putting a
>smile on my face with that domain name blast from the past.

As I mentioned to Geoff the automatic white list stuff in spamassassin
has been misbehaving recently and I've been contemplating turning it off
entirely.  I keep the blacklist fed with real spam but the automatic
stuff seems to have a mind of its own.

For a while I was only seeing problems on my local system, where I have
an almost-carbon-copy of sourceware's spamassassin running but, lately,
I've been seeing problems on sourceware itself.  A couple of weeks ago,
it decided that someone called "cgf" was a spammer and that definitely
wasn't cool.

cgf