Suspicious headers (was: Re: Goodbye for now, kmail)

Martin Steigerwald martin at lichtvoll.de
Mon May 8 22:24:36 BST 2017


Hi Ingo, Vojtěch,

Ingo Klöcker - 08.05.17, 21:11:
> On Saturday 06 May 2017 12:04:24 Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> > BTW, why is this the only conference I use awaiting moderation:
> > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
> > The reason it is being held:
> > Message has a suspicious header
> > Conference about KDE PIM rejects mails from KDE PIM? :-)
> 
> I wish I knew. Messages of other people are also held for moderation.
> Unfortunately, mailman isn't very transparent about which header is
> deems suspicious.
[…]
> Hmm. According to
> https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/release-3.0/src/mailman/rules/docs/suspici
> ous.html it's controlled by the bounce_matching_headers setting. For this
> mailing list it's set to
> =====
> X-Spam-Status: Yes
> Content-Type: text/html
> =====
> 
> So, messages that have been flagged as spam and HTML-messages are
> regarded as suspicious. As far as I can see your messages contain
> neither of those header. So, I still don't know what mailman is talking
> about. :/

Its happening for me as well. Ingo, do you see a similarity between the 
headers of my mails and the ones from Vojtěch?

Quoting from the headers you sent me as an example, Ingo, I do have X-Spam 
headers (needlessly as SpamAssassin shouldn´t run for mails I deliver via SMTP 
AUTH. I have an idea on how to change it, but I unlikely I get around to it 
before my holidays).

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on
        mondschein.lichtvoll.de
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00
        autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1

But it very clearly says: 

X-Spam-Status: No

while Mailman searches for Yes.

And there is definately no HTML in my mails nor any header related to it.

So or so according to hints elsewhere this appears to be the legacy spam filter 
in Mailman. Is it necessary to filter for "X-Spam-Status: Yes" there? 
postbox.kde.org could decline such mails already. Hmmm, I think best is to 
open a sysadmin ticket. I just created one: T6075 (I think it is set as 
private with sysadmins).

Thanks,
-- 
Martin



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