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Re: Oops: False Positive on Comments: Authenticated ...

1997-10-28 23:29:00
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote, following-up Felix Tilley:

Another good reason to filter messages to a temp mailbox rather than sending  
it to /dev/null....

:0
* ^Comments:.*authenticated\ sender\ is
/dev/null

:0:
* ^(Comments: Authenticated sender|X-PMFLAGS:)
* !^X-mailer: Pegasus Mail
may_be_spam

More is necessary!

# Pegasus mailer is the only mailer which legitimately generates
# "Comments: Authenticated sender is ..." so kill anything else.
:0E
* ^Comments:.*Authenticated sender
* !^X-Mailer:.*Pegasus Mail
* !^Resent-To:
{ SPAMMER="forged Pegasus auth" }

If Pegasus is used to resend mail to someone else, it does not include
the X-Mailer: header.  Therefore the !^Resent-To: is necessary to avoid
losing the mail.

GReg
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