Canada Post couldn’t format a proper email if their business depended on it…
…and it does. Below is the header from a mail generated by an “email this tracking page to somebody” web request via their website. WTF is “+0000 (EST)” in the Date field value. Really. Is it Canada Post that sucks, SAP, or both. Well I know for the most part Canada Post sucks and, well, SAP sucking on this point wouldn’t surprise me at all.
This really reinforces my feeling that their panic inspired product e-Post probably sucks and is likely prone to getting caught up in anti-spam systems.
In any case, being dumb costs you. For this stupidity SpamAssassin awards you with:
50_scores.cf:score INVALID_TZ_EST 2.601 2.065 2.265 2.696
50_scores.cf:score DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 2.299 1.394 1.306 0.044
Which is:
4.9 for set 0 — which lucky for them is the only thing that hits in set 0.
3.459 for set 1 — it’s a good thing the body is formatted to avoid checksum database hits.
Set 2 and 3 scores are pretty safe as long as the user’s bayes database doesn’t take off in the wrong direction (I hit BAYES_50).
Oh yeah, they forge the mail from: too! Idiots.
Return-Path: <sender@example.net>
Received: from OT1LF900.CPC (mailoutcpc.canadapost.ca [66.110.6.70])
by mx-04.dostech.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l4FKMgXq005778
for <recipient@example.com>; Tue, 15 May 2007 16:22:43 -0400
Received: from (10.130.62.19) by OT1LF900.CPC via smtp
id 0969_7d2e5b8a_034c_11dc_8ee3_0002b3da1013;
Tue, 15 May 2007 21:26:36 -0400
Received: from canadapost.ca ([10.100.21.29]) by cpcw1003.cpggpc.ad with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211);
Tue, 15 May 2007 16:22:42 -0400
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:22:41 +0000 (EST)
From: sender@example.net
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Event_Notification_/_Avis_d’activit=E9?=
To: recipient@example.com
Reply-To: sender@example.net
Message-ID: <ADR32000002408715@canadapost.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Importance: Normal
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-Mailer: SAP Web Application Server 6.40
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=”iso-8859-1″
Content-Description:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Event_Notification_/_Avis_d’activit=E9?=
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 May 2007 20:22:42.0226 (UTC) FILETIME=[CA55D120:01C7972E]
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