On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:05:20AM -0400, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson wrote:
| > > | FAKED_UNDISC_RECIPS:  This rule misfired on a few emails that were
| > > | legitimately sent BCC.
| > >
| > > Was this an outhouse bug?  ( 'To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>'  -- not a
| > > valid header per RFC (2)822)
| > >
| > > I haven't checked the rule itself, BTW.
| >
| > Yes.  It was in the form 'To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>'.
|
| I have registered this one on Bugzilla as bug #517.  Here is an example of
| headers from such a message sent from Outlook Express:
...
| To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
...

That is NOT a valid email messge, per RFCs 822 and 2822.

The specification for an address is given in section 6 of RFC 822 (or
Appendix D), and section 3.4 of RFC 2822.  Notice that a "group" does
*not* have angle brackets around it.  Not surprisingly, the outhouse
isn't generating (valid) internet email.

Interestingly enough, section A.1.3 in RFC 2822 gives an example of
how to create a Bcc message :
    ----
    From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    To: A Group:Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED],John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
    Cc: Undisclosed recipients:;
    Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1969 23:32:54 -0330
    Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    Testing.
    ----

       In this message, the "To:" field has a single group recipient named A
       Group which contains 3 addresses, and a "Cc:" field with an empty
       group recipient named Undisclosed recipients.


The FAKED_UNDISC_RECIPS rule will not trigger on that message.

I guess I personally don't care much what you do about that rule
because my exim setup will reject any syntactically incorrect message
before SA even sees it.

-D

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