Jeff A. Earickson writes on 16 September 1997 at 14:03:38
for the To: address being equal to the From: address. I agree that such a
[...]
days ago. Unfortunately, it started trapping a bunch of listserv mail.
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* $^TO($SENDER|$MATCH)\>
* !^Resent-
[...]
* $!(^FROM_DAEMON|${FROM}majordomo)
adding the ^FROM_DAEMON check would likely help let more listserv mail
slip though.
Professional Software Engineering writes on 16 September 1997 at 11:56:40
At 02:03 PM 9/16/97 -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
days ago. Unfortunately, it started trapping a bunch of listserv mail.
That would be expected. Recommendation: DO NOT add such a filter to a
systemwide rc. Such filtering makes sense AFTER users have had the
Right. I sort my mailing lists first.
# and From: = Reply-To:
Bad. Very bad. This penalizes people who explicitly declare a reply-to:
on their mail (which besides being RFC822 compliant, is sometimes necessary
to work around limitations with braindead mail agents like Lotus cc:Mail
that apparently like to misinterpret the headers on list mail).
sure it's correct and compliant, but I would contend it usually
doesn't make sense to have a Reply-To: header which contains the EXACT
SAME address as the From: header. Sure people do it (I've even done
it myself), but I don't see a good reason (other than something being
broken somewhere) to do this.
Maybe there's some really broken things out there I'm not aware of...
Ken Hooper writes on 16 September 1997 at 15:03:24
However, I've had a number of associates which have send out notifications
to a group of contacts, and used to=from (mail it to themselves, BCC: the
list). These messages will be trashed by such a filter.
I think it's dumb to filter for this as anything but a weight. I do exactly
yea, this really needs to be weighted. But until I hook that up, this
heuristic catches far more SPAM for me than legitimate mail; note that
at this point I still file SPAM away in a special folder rather than
sending it to /dev/null.
Dan
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