Stationary and Spam

[Guest]

I have been noticing that MS Outlook's stationaries are trigging anti spam servers to mark the e-mail as spam. Is there anyway to use stationaries with out spam filters being triggered by them?

Eample from a Spam Assassion server after recieiving a stationary e-mail

pts rule name description
0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN BODY: HTML font color is unknown to us
1.0 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12 BODY: HTML: images with 1000-1200 bytes of words
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
1.6 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY: Razor2 gives confidence between 51 and 100 [cf: 100]
1.1 MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email
0.9 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (http://razor.sf.net/)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Well it looks like it is caused by;
1.1 MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email

And since there are no e-mail addresses in the Stationery I've checked I
don't think it has somehing to do with the stationery.

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It's a problem with any HTML formatted message and because of the images in
stationery, it's hard to avoid. Hotmail and Yahoo addresses are often
flagged as spam, even from legitimate senders, just because spammers
commonly use those domains in the From field.

Your best bet is to make sure you don't include any other things typical of
spam to lessen your chances of it getting enough points to be tagged spam -
like include text with images.

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[Guest]

Thanks for pointing that one out, though good job comcast. Appears that comcast users are being taged now.

Though just wondering if anyone else is having this problem.

Well it looks like it is caused by;
1.1 MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email

And since there are no e-mail addresses in the Stationery I've checked I
don't think it has somehing to do with the stationery.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

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I have been noticing that MS Outlook's stationaries are trigging anti spam
servers to mark the e-mail as spam. Is there anyway to use stationaries
with out spam filters being triggered by them?

Eample from a Spam Assassion server after recieiving a stationary e-mail

pts rule name description
0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN BODY: HTML font color is unknown to us
1.0 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12 BODY: HTML: images with 1000-1200 bytes of
words
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
1.6 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY: Razor2 gives confidence between 51 and
100 [cf: 100]
1.1 MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email
0.9 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (http://razor.sf.net/)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Appears that Comcast users are being taged now.

Yes, Comcast has one of the largest armies of zombie spambots spewing out
spam. (I report several each day.) But it's not just a comcast address that
tags it as spam - an image with very little text is a killer too.
--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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