On 14 March 2012 10:02, Seb Bacon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 March 2012 09:52, Alex Stapleton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14/03/12 08:26, Mark Goodge wrote: > >> > >> My guess is that what's happening is that they've taken the one-time > >> address generated by WDTK for the first request, and then stored that in > >> their system as your address, and any subsequent requests from you are > being > >> replied to that address. Or, more simply, whoever is replying is just > >> looking for "Paul Perrin" in their Outlook address book and taking the > first > >> match. > > > > (I am making an awful lot of assumptions about how things work currently > > here but...) > > > > What about instead of sending the message from > > > > "Paul Perrin <[email protected]>" > > > > You do > > > > "Paul Perrin [Title of FOIA Request] <[email protected]>" > > > > Obviously the responder can still screw up and choose the wrong return > > address, this way does seem like it would make it easier to do the right > > thing using the erroneous work-flow you described them using. > > It's a nice idea, but I wonder what massively long names in a From: > field do to spam scores... >
Seb > Hi, I checked with the latest spamassassin rules and it notices if there are multiple @ in the from address but doesn't seem to care about [] and from address length. So Shaun Laughey [How many @ did you use] <[email protected]> might be marked as spam... Other systems may vary. Regards, Shaun Laughey
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