• Why a messageis blocked

    By Nico Vis 2 decades ago

    Hi Tom,

    I would like to know why a message is blocked or not: here is an example:

    I received a pure text mail in arial without formattation and it has been blocked.

    Looking at the Tokens I see:



    "Segundo: 0.1854"

    "turno: 0.0903"

    "nea: 0.1327"

    "content-class: 0.0100"

    "urn: 0.2322"

    "content-classes: 0.0975"

    "div: 0.9858"

    "0pt': 0.9900"

    "3DArial: 0.9900"

    "Section1: 0.9900"

    "purple: 0.9900"

    "0pt: 0.9900"

    "font-size: 0.9900"

    "CONTENT: 0.9900"

    "Mabe: 0.0100"



    the bad tokens are the one that I can't sse in the mail, why do you think is it so? What is purple and opt referring to?

    Thank you



    Nico

    • Re: Have you looked at the source of the message? <eom>

      By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

    • That's html code

      By Oliver Regelmann 2 decades ago

      That's html code formatting the mail. Since many (almost all) spam mails are using html these keywords get a high probability.



      That indeed is a problem since this makes kSpam to generate too many false positives (good mail considered as spam) when they're also written in html. That's one of the reasons why I tell everyone never to use html in mails.



      You can add these keywords to the ini: KS_BL_IGNORE. But this won't really help. When you enter some keywords kSpam will block others. And ini parameters can only have up to 256 characters AFAIK.



      There's been a thread about this here yet.

      • Re: The next version...

        By Tom Lyne 2 decades ago

        … of kspam will be able to read it's configuration from a document in kSpamCon.nsf, so this will get over the 256 character limit problem.



        -tom

        • Cool

          By Oliver Regelmann 2 decades ago

          Cool. That will make it much more useful since the html code really is a problem. At least for me.