Alex Schuster | 6 Mar 2009 18:15
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Many false positives

Hi there!

When I subscribe to any of the Gentoo mailing lists, the confirmation email 
I get seems to be always treated as SPAM. One example is attached, along 
with the result of razor-check -d. You can get your own by sending an email 
to gentoo-user+subscribe <at> lists.gentoo.org. I also ran razor-check on 
another server which I did not configure, just to make sure it is no stupid 
error on my side.

How can this happen? Please excuse my ignorance - I am a happy razor user 
for years, but did not dig into details of how it works. I just installed 
it and it seemed to work just fine. I was under the impression that it only 
reports mails that have been reported by a human as SPAM - well, mails that 
have the same hash as such a mail, but those hashes should be quite unique 
I guess. But these confirmation mails have my email address in the body, so 
noone could possibly have reported this as SPAM. And now that I checked the 
logs, I found another mail from today that is a false positive. It came 
from the Fedora mailing list, and a reply to it was also marked as SPAM. I 
also attached those mails.

So, what's wrong with these mails?

	Wonko
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