Re: SpamProbe 1.2 released

Anthony Campbell <ac-MeA/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24 Jun 2005, Thomas Schürger wrote:
> > On a different note, I've found the -H option to be extremely useful for
> > catching the huge number of bounced mails that I'm getting now. By
> > filtering on the "Return-Path" header I get every single one of them!
> 
> What kind of bounces do you mean? What is the effect of filtering on
> the Return-Path header? I'm not sure in which situations this header
> is used in mails (is it supposed to be the envelope FROM address in
> certain situations?). Most of the mails in my inbox don't include that
> header.
> 
> Would that header be a candidate for being included in the standard
> set of headers scanned by spamprobe?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Thomas.
> 

Most of mine don't contain the line either. But in the last week or so
I've been getting over 100 bounces from unknown recipients, presumably
due to a "joe job". I found that all of these bounces contained the
following first two header lines:

	From [email protected]  Wed Jun 22 10:24:59 2005
	Return-Path: [email protected]

No other emails have these lines. I assume they are added by my mail
server. I don't suppose it would be a good idea to include it in the
standard headers list but it might be worth documenting.

Anthony

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