But with the large amount of Outlook Express users out there I imagine that this rule will cause alot of false positives. You can talk all day about MS not following RFC standards but in the end the customer still gets legitimate email tagged as Spam and is not happy and they don't care about RFCs.
---Ed. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Derrick 'dman' Hudson > Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 12:47 PM > To: satalk > Subject: [SAtalk] Re: FAKED_UNDISC_RECIPS rule [was "Rule misfires"] > > > 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 > > -- > > Pride only breeds quarrels, > but wisdom is found in those who take advice. > Proverbs 13:10 > > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Got root? We do. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
