email - spamassassin - thresholds

[jechilt]

All our messages being labeled as SPAM on the receiving end have a common item:

3.3 MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT Message-Id was added by a relay

Anyone know how to correct this. I could greatly reduce our SPAM threshold just by resolving this. Unfortunately, I am past the "what causes it" as I am getting pressure from my users to just "fix it".

any suggestions would be great!

system: RH9
Exim 4.24
Most users use IMAP, running on port 443. Can't recall any POP3 user.

thanks.

 

[nobaloney]

I haven't installed the new SpamAssassin yet; I like to let others work out the bugs before I adopt something new.

That said, if SA is attaching points because the email has a Message-ID added by a relay it's doing quite a bit of overkill.

There are lots of good reasons why a Message-ID header could be added by a relay; most logical is because the MUA (Mail User Agent, or local program, such as OE, Eudora, etc.) doesn't add one by default.

If you search all the spamassassin .cf files for the MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT entry you can either remove the entry or give it less points.

I don't think you have to restart spamd, but it wouldn't hurt.

WARNING: UNTESTED. Do at your own risk

Jeff

 

[jechilt]

resolved with SpamAssassin 3.01