# Second-pass reality check (SPEC §C.1: this filter runs on mail the provider has # already accepted and delivered). # # Every symbol below is a legitimate SMTP-time signal that is meaningless — or # actively wrong — when scoring a message at rest, days after delivery, fetched # over IMAP. Measured on a 398-message sample of real delivered mail, they fired # on 44-71% of it and pushed 11.3% of ordinary mail over the banner threshold. # # They are zeroed, not deleted: they still appear in the symbol list, so a verdict # stays explainable, they just no longer contribute score. When M6 lands, the edge # scanner (§C.7) sees real SMTP state and these matter again — there, not here. # # Measured on 398 real delivered messages, before -> after this file: # median 3.09 -> 0.70 # p95 7.00 -> 3.40 # >= 6.0 11.3% -> 1.0% (the banner threshold) # max 11.66 -> 9.15 (move threshold is 12.0, so: headroom) # The thresholds themselves were left at the spec's 12.0/6.0 — they were never # the problem. Re-measure after the C2 learning loop has a trained Bayes: until # then genuine scams and legitimate bulk mail overlap in the 5-8 band, and no # threshold can separate them. symbols { # "This message is older than the scan" — always true for us. "DATE_IN_PAST" { score = 0.0; } # "Already delivered once" — by definition, for a second-pass filter. "PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED" { score = 0.0; } # Properties of the connecting host, which we never saw. "HFILTER_HOSTNAME_UNKNOWN" { score = 0.0; } "RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST" { score = 0.0; } # Absence-of-authentication penalties. We cannot verify SPF/DKIM/DMARC/ARC at # rest anyway, so "not available" says nothing about this message. "ARC_NA" { score = 0.0; } "DMARC_NA" { score = 0.0; } }