Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 12:22 -0700, kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 5/21/12, Bernd Petrovitsch be...@petrovitsch.priv.at wrote: On Don, 2012-05-17 at 16:02 -0700, kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: ... Beliefs like yours are the problem. Policies like mine cause the solution. Perhaps it

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-22 Thread George Roberts
Exchange uses SMTP but generates a syntactically incorrect header. Similarly with Google's gmail (it often omits the from clause when required), Yahoo's use of an unregistered protocol (with NNFMP*), qmail, and of late, exim. Do you also then block mail from Gmail, Yahoo, qmail and exim if

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Don, 2012-05-17 at 16:02 -0700, kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 5/17/12, Kris Deugau kdeu...@vianet.ca wrote: ...All that said Your system, your policy. In that case, why have standards at all if the results from non-compliant software will be accepted anyway? Rejection of

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Mon, 5/21/12, Bernd Petrovitsch be...@petrovitsch.priv.at wrote: On Don, 2012-05-17 at 16:02 -0700, kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: ... Beliefs like yours are the problem.  Policies like mine cause the solution. Perhaps it is more annoying if you add these rules to SpamAssassin and score

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:22:39 -0700 (PDT) kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: Definently not. A rejected message (returned to the sender) gets more action (or administrative notice) than one accepted as spam therefore unanswered. Rejecting a message containing an X-Auto-Response-Suppress is not only

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Mon, 5/21/12, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:22:39 -0700 (PDT) kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: Definently not.  A rejected message (returned to the sender) gets more action (or administrative notice) than one accepted as spam therefore unanswered.

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:47:18 -0700 (PDT) kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: Rejecting communication with Microsoft Exchange is an interesting position to take and I sympathise on a philosophical level, but it's tilting at windmills.  Completely impractical if you actually rely on email for business

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread George Roberts
...@lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 5:02 PM To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:47 PM, kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: 2)  You still haven't said why I should accept any message which

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Mon, 5/21/12, George Roberts grobe...@purity.net wrote: I'm sort of sorry I started this whole thing, LOL. Just so I have some clarity on the issue, could someone please explain to me what exactly it is that Exchange does with Received: headers that is so bad?  I see Received: lines

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-21 Thread Jeff Makey
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: When Yahoo was asked about NNFMP, its help-desk staff indicated in 2009 that any message which contains it is not real but a forgery. Although I get plenty of spam containing with NNFMP in a Received header, as recently as last September I saw it in a real Yahoo message

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-17 Thread Kris Deugau
kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: I take a stronger approach: Since M$ Exchange is incapable of generating proper Received: headers, I reject all mail which has transited such a system using that software. If one looks carefully, their chosen syntax violates even the old RFC 821/822 standards

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-17 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Thu, 5/17/12, Kris Deugau kdeu...@vianet.ca wrote: ...All that said   Your system, your policy. In that case, why have standards at all if the results from non-compliant software will be accepted anyway? Rejection of non-standard data (including messages) should give sufficient

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-17 Thread Chad M Stewart
On May 17, 2012, at 6:02 PM, kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: In that case, why have standards at all if the results from non-compliant software will be accepted anyway? Rejection of non-standard data (including messages) should give sufficient motivation to fix broken software. Except in the

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-17 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:02:18 -0700 (PDT) kd6...@yahoo.com wrote: In that case, why have standards at all if the results from non-compliant software will be accepted anyway? Rejection of non-standard data (including messages) should give sufficient motivation to fix broken software. There's

[Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-16 Thread David F. Skoll
Hi, all, After gnashing my teeth at Microsoft because its dumb software ignores Precedence: and List-*: headers and cheerfully sends out-of-office replies to list owners, I discovered this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee219609%28v=exchg.80%29.aspx I've set up a MIMEDefang filter to

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/16/2012 4:02 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Hi, all, After gnashing my teeth at Microsoft because its dumb software ignores Precedence: and List-*: headers and cheerfully sends out-of-office replies to list owners, I discovered this:

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-16 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Wed, 5/16/12, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: After gnashing my teeth at Microsoft because its dumb software ignores Precedence: and List-*: headers and cheerfully sends out-of-office replies to list owners, I discovered this:

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-16 Thread George Roberts
Of kd6...@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:23 PM To: mimedefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header --- On Wed, 5/16/12, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: After gnashing my teeth at Microsoft because its dumb software ignores

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-16 Thread John Nemeth
On Oct 6, 5:23pm, George Roberts wrote: } } If one looks carefully, RFC 5321 3.7.2 states: } } As another consequence of trace header fields arising in non-SMTP } environments, receiving systems MUST NOT reject mail based on the } format of a trace header field and SHOULD be extremely robust in

Re: [Mimedefang] X-Auto-Response-Suppress header

2012-05-16 Thread kd6lvw
--- On Wed, 5/16/12, George Roberts grobe...@purity.net wrote: If one looks carefully, RFC 5321 3.7.2 states: As another consequence  of trace header fields arising in non-SMTP environments, receiving  systems MUST NOT reject mail based on the format of a trace header field and SHOULD be