PGP messages getting flagged as spam

[Adam Schreiber]

When my university was using SpamAssassin, GPG emails were being
marked as spam because patterns were being matched by the armored text
and no negative bonus was being given to GPG signed or encrypted
messages.  They were not willing to tweak their rules.

Adam Schreiber

On 10/9/07, Robert J. Hansen <rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:
> I just received word from one of my regular correspondents that his
> email server has begun flagging PGP traffic as spam.  I haven't seen
> this come up often (ever?) in the lists before, so I'm operating on the
> assumption that this may be a new problem people should be aware of.
>
> SpamAssassin is giving results like this:
>
> > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.6 required=5.0
> > tests=BAYES_60,UNIQUE_WORDS,
> >       UPPERCASE_25_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.4
> > X-Spam-Report:
> >       *  2.3 UNIQUE_WORDS BODY: Message body has many words used only >
>     once
> >       *  3.3 BAYES_60 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 60 to 80%
> >       *      [score: 0.7031]
> >       *  0.0 UPPERCASE_25_50 message body is 25-50% uppercase
>
> So, if you're running SpamAssassin, might want to see about tweaking
> some rules.  :)
>
>
>
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