I have started using MDaemon as a mail server for my network. i used it before, and its great, so im using it again. but using the spam filters are quite funny. i just got a peice of spam with the following rating:

—- Start SpamAssassin results 112.30 points, 5 required;

  • 1.9 — Sent with ‘X-Priority’ set to high

  • 0.8 — From: does not include a real name

  • 2.7 — BODY: Claims you can be removed from the list

  • 0.2 — BODY: Talks about opting in (capitalized version)

  • 0.3 — BODY: Offers a limited time offer

  • 0.7 — BODY: Gives a lame excuse about why you were sent this spam

  • 0.3 — URI: URL of page called “remove”

  • 100.0 — From: address is in the user’s black-list

  • 1.1 — Subject is all capitals

  • 0.5 — Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE

  • 1.7 — Subject has lots of exclamation marks

  • 1.2 — message body is 25-50% uppercase

  • 0.6 — Message looks like Outlook, but isn’t

  • 0.3 — AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment

—- End of SpamAssassin results

Now as you can see, it only got 112.3 as a result because the address is in the blacklist. but i also got one rated at 42.6 and there is no black list on that one!! i love spamassassin!