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Bug 172707 - mail-filter/spamassassin-botnet is broken by design
Summary: mail-filter/spamassassin-botnet is broken by design
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Patrick McLean
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Reported: 2007-03-29 19:33 UTC by Blu3
Modified: 2007-07-10 18:40 UTC (History)
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Description Blu3 2007-03-29 19:33:00 UTC
Please remove mail-filter/spamassassin-botnet from portage.  It is mislabeled.  The tests don't have any significant relevance to botnets, it is purely a DNS/MX dissector.  Simply put this matches the sending host to a cable, dsl, or dialup modem and if found scores it with +5 points.  Additionally, it doesn't pay attention to the authentication verbs in the headers.

5 points is the default cutoff as spam for spamassassin and few people raise it, rather they lower it.

This means that most installations using spamassassin with this ruleset will flag all cable/dsl/dialup users as botnets and bump their score to be at least 5 points.  Combine that with any other smaller values like missing DK, half a point here and there for bayesian stuff or maybe html and you're guaranteed to drop this email.
Comment 1 Patrick McLean gentoo-dev 2007-07-10 18:40:31 UTC
spamassassin-botnet is actually pretty useful, yes it can cause false positives, but generally only on mail servers that don't have a proper reverse DNS (ie ones running on cable/DSL lines without static IP addresses).