On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:48 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > [...] > } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the > } email was sent to. > } > } Most ISPs don't like that anymore, and SpamAssassin (and probably > } Baysians also) score it as possible spam. > > I don't think you know what you're talking about. First of all, I don't > know of a single spam filter (with the possible but unlikely exception of > GMail) that is sufficiently stateful that it will notice that the message > with the ID in the In-Reply-To field was originally sent to an email > address other than the one in the From field. Second, if it could, it would > break every single mailing list reply since the From field *never* matches > the list email address to which the original was sent. And third, in actual > practice, I have never had trouble sending messages which claim to be from > a wide variety of email addresses often having nothing to do with the > machine from which I was sending. (A series of reflectors and > forwards would get messages sent to those addresses back to the machine in > question, but that isn't something that a spam filter can test.) > > In short, I think you're speaking from a position of no knowledge on the > subject whatsoever.
But I've seen twice, in *valid* emails I've received from mailing lists, where people send emails from their own MTAs, but force the return address to be <blah>@yahoo.com and <blah>@hotmail.com. Here's an example of how SA scores them: CONFIRMED_FORGED FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Why do people think that Pamela Anderson & Paris Hilton are so attractive? Those women are *weird* looking.
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