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Here are the headers I get when I receive an email due to my
subscription to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [perl #38183] [TODO] smoke - possible 'Cross Site
Scripting' issue
Date: November 24, 2008 4:49:39 PM EST
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are the headers I get when I receive an email due to my
subscription to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [parrot-tickets] [Parrot] #6: [TODO] remove
VtableCache PMC
Date: November 24, 2008 5:21:54 PM EST
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note the absence of a 'To:' header in each email. I believe this may
cause Parrot email to be rejected as spam by anti-spam programs and
Internet service providers.
I am employed by a major email service provider -- the type of
business that lives or dies on the basis of whether the email it
sends is actually delivered to the intended recipients. I consulted
with one of the deliverability experts at the company about the
absence of 'To:' headers. He confirmed my suspicion that the absence
of a 'To:' header could lead to rejection of our email.
I became aware of this because I have long run a crude anti-spam
program before downloading my email from my ISP. Whenever I receive
an email lacking a 'To:' header, I get a classic Perl 5 uninitialized
value warning:
Use of uninitialized value $headers{"To"} in concatenation (.) or
string at ... line 153, <STDIN> line 1.
Until I started to (really, had to) subscribe to parrot-dev, I could
be certain (99% confidence level) that any email I received without a
'To:' header was spam. So if my amateur program flags parrot-dev and
parrot-tickets email as possible spam, what might professional
programs do.
I'll concede that I have no evidence that our email is already being
rejected, but I think that, at the very least, delivering our mail to
'Cc:' rather than to 'To:' should be made public.
Thank you very much.
kid51
