KMail: why is my email spam?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 19:04:13 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 12:50 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> > On 01/25/2010 09:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> >> A number of people have been telling me for some time
>> >> (months if not years) that my email is being defined as spam.
>> >> [This is email that could not by any stretch of the imagination
>> >> be considered as spam, even by the thought-police.]
>> >
>> > That's not a simple question to answer.  The complex part is that each
>> > ISP generally has it's own mechanisms and sets of rule on how/why to
>> > label spam.
>> >
>> > But I can tell you what's contained in the header of this message you
>> > just posted,
>> >
>> > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on
>> >        bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com
>> > X-Spam-Level: IIIIIII (7%)
>> > X-Spam-Status: No
>> >
>> > So, this one in particular, isn't bad.
>>
>> Gmail things all his emails are bad. This one had the warning:
>> "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be."
>
> Not here it doesn't. I get the list via Gmail, including Timothy's
> posts, and none of it is marked as suspicious.

Interesting, the only reason I get any of his posts is because of a
filter I put in.

Either way, the email headers suggests why his emails are considered spam.

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