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What are "SpamAssassin results"?

When spam filtering is enabled, the software will create reports for messages that it believes to be spam. These reports will appear for messages that are HTML and/or contain a file attachment.

Typically the reports look like the following:

---- Start SpamAssassin results
10.20 points, 5 required;
*  1.1 -- From: does not include a real name
*  0.6 -- Received via SMTPD32 server (SMTPD32-n.n)
*  0.6 -- Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822)
*  0.1 -- From: contains numbers mixed in with letters
*  1.7 -- BODY: Information on how to work at home (2)
*  2.4 -- BODY: Drastically Reduced
*  0.7 -- BODY: List removal information
*  1.0 -- BODY: Once in a lifetime, apparently
*  1.2 -- 'Content-Type' found without required MIME headers
*  0.8 -- Message-Id is not valid, according to RFC 2822

---- End of SpamAssassin results

The original message did not contain plain text, and may be unsafe to
open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus,
or confirm that your address can receive spam.  If you wish to view
it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor.

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