Re: CPAN Testers reports == spam?

[email protected] (Felipe Gasper)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.testers.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Mar 6, 2022, at 20:11, Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, at 09:48, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>>   1.0 BAYES_999              BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100%
>>                              [score: 1.0000]
>>   5.0 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
>>                              [score: 1.0000]
> 
> These relate to your training of SpamAssassin.  I don't know how you or your provider is training your Bayes db, but you're getting six points from that.

It’s a cPanel server.

Maybe the `nbsp` in there--useless in a plain-text email?--is the culprit. (Bayes, from what I’ve read, takes into account misspelled words.)

> 
>>   3.3 EXCUSE_REMOVE          BODY: Talks about how to be removed from mailings
> 
> This is, I think, a bit higher than the default value for this, but not much higher.  I think that's too high, but perhaps replacing this with "to unsubscribe" would help.  (Again, though, your personal Bayes is the likely problem here.)

The list-help, list-unsubscribe, etc. headers would probably be a good addition here?

> 
>>   0.9 PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT BODY: MIME text/plain claims to be ASCII
>>                               but isn't
> 
> The email does not have a Content-Type header.  It should have one, probably "text/plain; charset=utf-8"

Agreed.

-F
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