outlook 2003 blocked by SpamAssassin

[Colton Cheng]

Recently I tried outlook 2003, some of my emails were blocked by some spam
filters.
It seems that those spam filters do not understand outlook 2003 email
header.
Big trouble!!

there is a sample. When I use outlook 2003 and send the same email, never
have any problem.
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Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: 7.80 points, 5 required;
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * -0.5 -- BODY: Contains what looks like a
quoted email text
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * 1.6 -- RAW: Message text disguised using
base-64 encoding
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * 1.5 -- URI: URL contains username and
(optional) password
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * 0.7 -- URI: Uses a username in a URL
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * 0.4 -- URI: Includes a link to a likely
spammer email address
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * 3.5 -- Forged mail pretending to be from MS
Outlook
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * 0.6 -- Message looks like Outlook, but
isn't
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: End of SpamAssassin results
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:22:52: * c:\mdaemon\localq\md50000745198.msg deleted
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[neo [mvp outlook]]

Many 3rd party spam filters are going to have to go back to the drawing
board since Outlook 2003 doesn't generate a message-id. (It leaves it up to
the SMTP server to generate and attach.) For more information on this,
there was a nice thread on it near the end of July 2003.

 

[Arvel Hathcock]

Many 3rd party spam filters are going to have to go back to the drawing

board since Outlook 2003 doesn't generate a message-id. (It leaves it up to
the SMTP server to generate and attach.) For more information on this,
there was a nice thread on it near the end of July 2003.

That's true. We are working on a permanent solution now. Meanwhile,
add this to your \MDaemon\SpamAssassin\Rules\Local.cf to temporarily
deal with the issue:

score FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 0.0

Arvel Hathcock
CEO, Alt-N Technologies