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Re: Cannot get recipies to work properly

2002-02-10 14:21:00
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Andrew Edelstein wrote:

You'd be better off shortening these two down to:

  <snip>

This is a bad idea. There are lots of perfectly legit X- headers in non-spam
mail, X-Mailer being one of the most common. This very list uses X-BeenThere
to prevent mail loops.

  <snip> 
 
Also a bad idea. Someone from whom you DO wish to receive mail might Bcc a
message to you. "Undisclosed recipients" is not uncommon.

  <snip> 
See the FAQ on better ways of determing the "sender". "^From:.*" is very error
prone.

  All excellent suggestions. I've implemented all but the latter and I'm off
to the FAQ for that.

Many thanks,

Rich
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                       Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
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