I’ve been getting an unreasonable number of e-mails like the following recently:
From: somespammer@noreply.com
Subject: Willkommensbonus – 400 Euro!
is Unsolicited Commercial Email (spam). Unless you are sure that this message
is incorrectly thought to be spam, please delete this message without opening
it. Opening spam messages might allow the spammer to verify your email
address.
If some MTA decided that this was spam, WHY DID IT STILL SEND IT?! ARGHHHH!
What’s the point of installing SpamAssassin on your MTA if you’re not actually going to do anything when it detects spam? Mine sends all spam to the great bit bucket in the sky – I don’t want it in my inbox.
Unfortunately the way these dumb MTAs modify the messages to add details of the spam report means that my instance of SpamAssassin doesn’t (quite) identify them as spam – if they’d just left them alone, they’d get correctly identified…
