Custom X-Header and AOL's New ARF Reports

"Ken S." <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:48:20 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ezmlm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good afternoon.

The problem I'm trying to fix has to do with AOL switching to the new
Abuse Reporting Format (ARF).  Previous to this switch, in order for
me to unsubscribe an AOL user who marked a message from the listserv
as spam I inserted a new X-Header with the user's email.  This was
based on a phone conversation with AOL's postmaster department and was
their recommendation.  The reason for the extra header was that they
scrubbed the AOL user's email from the message for privacy.  They told
me they would not scrub it from an X-Header.  This has worked great
for me for years now.  Now with the new ARF reports, they scrub it
from all parts of the message.

So I've played around with it for a day or so and tried different
combinations to the X-Header and it has scrubbed it each time.  My
next idea would be to find a way to scrambled the email address and
insert it in to the X-Header.  I could write an external program that
could do the scrambling, but I don't know how I could link that in to
ezmlm so it could insert it in to the message.

Thanks for any advice or any other better ways to accomplish this goal.

-ken
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