I think this whole discussion is for nothing.
Considering that rarely people put their address as pretty name you
can allready prefilter emails as spam which have a valid
email address
as pretty name.
Maybe you can even consider to mark everything as SPAM
which has an @
in the pretty name.
My company mandates that ALL users the pretty name shalt be
their email address.
Most of our users comply.
fine - so display name = mime from. so no problem if you consider
a display name as invalid if it contains an @ but does not match
mime from.
Lots of other people do that to, perhaps not the majority,
but a sufficient minority to prevent blocking on that logic
to be reasonable.
Or you compare pretty name with addresss when pretty name
is a valid
email address.
That's a good idea, barring typos and ignoring whitespace,
that should work.
It think this pretty name discussion should be placed
somewhere in a
SPAM Filter forum and not in a SenderID Forum.
As long as SenderID is claiming to fix Phishing, I believe
you to be incorrect.
You will never find a way of verifying Display Names.
How do you know that I am really Stefan Engelbert and
not John Doe who is faking the Display Name to Stefan Engelbert?
So I repeat my opinion that its impossible to invent an
"Eierlegende Wollmilchsau". We should focus on SPF and/or SenderID/PRA.
Terry Fielder
Manager Software Development and Deployment Great Gulf Homes
/ Ashton Woods Homes terry(_at_)greatgulfhomes(_dot_)com
Fax: (416) 441-9085
Kind Regards
Stefan Engelbert
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From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Scott Kitterman
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:00 PM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: [SPFTAG] - RE: [spf-discuss] No use of checking
RFC2822 headers - Sender is probably forged (SPF Softfail)
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From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of
Michel Py
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:50 AM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [spf-discuss] No use of checking RFC2822 headers
Carl Hutzler wrote:
The latter address is the email address which is
cdhutzler(_at_)aol(_dot_)com(_dot_)
Carl Hutzler is the display name or pretty name. We do
not display
the pretty name in our AOL clients. Never have.
This is very good and we all thank you, but I'm afraid that the
outlook of the Outlook situation (pun intended) is bleak.
The very
reason Outlook displays the pretty name is customer
request, and
delivering to the customers what they want (no matter it's
a good or
bad idea) is what made M$ successful.
I don't see a solution to it as of now, since millions
would tell you
that it's a feature they want not a bug.
Michel.
I don't know about Outlook Express (don't use it), but in Outlook
2000 what happens is you see only the pretty name in the message
list, but when you open the message, you see both. Also, it will
display Sender too, so your e-mail to the list is displayed as:
message list:
From
Michel Py
Preview pane:
From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Opened message:
owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com; on behalf of; Michel
Py
[michel(_at_)arneill-py(_dot_)sacramento(_dot_)ca(_dot_)us]
In terms of the 2822 identities, I don't think that's to bad.
I don't know what newer versions do (won't be finding out either
because of product activation).
Scott Kitterman
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