Re: can't receive messages from ourselves (e.g., through a mailing-list)

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Marc Herbert wrote:

> > This is here because you cannot trust your own address in any manner (unless
> > it contains your mailkey). Otherwise, it would be very easy for spammers to
> > deliver a message to you: Just make it seem as if it's coming from you. For
> > obvious reasons, ASK cannot send yourself a confirmation, so in the end, the
> > choice is either deliver or junk.
>
> I understand that, but I think it could (should?) be tested AFTER
> white/black/etc list matching, so the mailkey trick would be truly
> optional.
>
> Moreover, from a pure "software engineering" perspective
> (grandiloquence, sorry), I find it quite weird to test
> "is_from_ourselves" in an otherwise very generic list matching
> function. I think it should at least be done at a higher level.
>
>
> > This is why these messages are "junked" instead of blindly deleted. This
> > gives you a chance to check, from times to times, if there's something not
> > quite right because you forgot to whitelist your list address, for instance.
>
> Again, if "if self.is_from_ourselves(sender)" was tested AFTER
> whitelist matching, the "junk" thing just above would also work, and
> would not be dependent from the mailkey system.
>
> I am not asking to suppress the mailkey system, just to make it
> really independent from the rest, and so really optional (it is almost
> already today).
>

Marco,

 Unless you find the time to convince me not to do so, I will soon
file a RFE for this in sourceforge. I'll try to have look to the code
first to give more precisions about the change I would like.

Cheers,

Marc.



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