OT - for any email gurus

Oct 15, 2016 8 Replies

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David 10 years ago

Just received some SPAM (gasp!) to a Hotmail account.

I looked at the message headers and stuff, and saw (small part):

" Subjectively-Blows: 2767

Thimbles-Cumulative: fcef678f31cb3

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Message-ID:

Destined-Conceding-Motherly: 7C5EE9ED3C9C8

From: Google Support

Terrified-Smokestack: sarasota

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" "

I am hoping that someone has been smoking stuff and encoding joke header and trace information.

Whatever, it passed all the way through the Outlook service without being flagged as SPAM.

Cheers

Dave R

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Andy Burns 10 years ago

I suppose it's just to "dilute" the information a Bayesian filter will be working from ...

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Brian Gaff 10 years ago

I personally think that a lot of isps have had to reduce their filtering as there have been so many folse positives resulting in lost email in the last year or so If you look at some genuine headers you find some pretty weird stuff and so its probably no different filter wise to what has to be allowed these days. Time was when email headers were less than ten lines, now goodness knows what a lot of them do the main routing ones are still there though. Brian

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