On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 17:38, Michael Geier wrote: > [1]If you belong to a list that does it, put them in your whitelist (in my > opinion, any list you belong to should be in a whitelist anyway).
What happens for lists to which spammers submit mail? I'd like to be able to still get effective filtering there. Whitelisting mailing lists is generally a bad idea IMHO. > [2] I frankly don't understand the point of that one... The internet is a big and complex beast. Sometimes links are *not* bidirectional, at many layers of the app/tcp/ip/carrier stack. In other words, just because I can send email to you from some machine located inside a firewall without an internet IP address doesn't mean you can send back to me by the same path. Read RFC-822 or 2822 for more info on the purpose of the Reply-To field, and why it's often necessary, and why it sometimes *has* to be different from the From field. > [3] If people need control over where the replies are sent, is it impossible to > have the original message sent from the same domain? Whoever heard of a mail > server you could retrieve from, but couldn't send from, or at least that SMTP > and POP3/IMAP weren't in the same domain? Let's say I'm sending an email from my office machine, using my work mail server, but would like replies to go to my home account. I can set reply-to, and not worry about what the Exchange server is giving me as a From: address. When I get home, responses will be where I expect them to be. There are lots of instances too where exactly what you describe holds -- where you can read but not send, or vice-versa. Just because you're not using such a setup doesn't mean that someone else isn't. Again, my personal email server at home -- I can check my mail remotely, but do relay-prevention by preventing SMTP connections from the outside world. So if I'm on the road, I need to use my dialup ISP's SMTP server for sending, but point my IMAP client at my own domain. > Also, nobody is saying score it like CTYPE_JUST_HTML...maybe only add 0.1 or > 0.05, but I find it to be a little sad most spammers these days tend to send > from one address and reply-to another (neither of which is valid), and send off > some asian relay who's admin is stupid enough to use default installations of > outdated SMTP packages (ie. relay server). I just don't think a +ve score would really work here. But feel free to code something up to do the check, and I'll run it over the corpus and see how the rule scores. C _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
