Bart Schaefer wrote: BS> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Doug Crompton wrote: BS> BS> > What can I tell this person to do differently to avoid this? BS> BS> When using an AOL dialup to connect, reconfigure the user agent to use an BS> AOL address as the sender. (AOL doesn't sell dialups without assigning a BS> "screen name" that can receive email, do they?) And set the SMTP server BS> to use AOL's gateway for all deliveries rather than connecting directly to BS> each recipient's SMTP.
If they want replies to go to a yahoo.com address, then set that as the reply-to address. If they're actually sending from AOL, the RFC suggests they should set the From to be @aol.com BS> > Can we forward this junk to our US representitives or somewhere else BS> > where it is noticed? BS> BS> There's the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> address specifically intended to collect BS> examples of spam, but I get the impression they're mostly interested in BS> fradulent advertising and other scams rather than simple junk mail. BS> BS> I wouldn't recommend sending it to your representatives, they probably get BS> enough copies of it already and just have overpaid staffers to sit around BS> and delete it. Let them be overpaid for going through useful email. I was just kidding suggesting to do that. Please don't, you'll probably just get the FBI knocking on my door then doing a body cavity search for anthrax spores or something. Of course, if you're the person who submitted my mail server to ORDB that might be your idea of fun. BS> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: BS> BS> > Actually, it said FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD which seems pretty misleading. BS> > Shouldn't the rule, then, be FORGED_YAHOO_FROM? BS> BS> I almost mentioned that when the rule was added, but the description is BS> correct so I figured the name was just meant to look similar to the other BS> anti-forgery rules. The moral is look at the rule description, not the name, because the rules frequently change meaning over time, but the descriptions normally stay up to date. C _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
