Re: SpamProbe 1.2 released
Anthony Campbell <ac-MeA/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 24 Jun 2005, Thomas Schürger wrote: > > > 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? > > > > 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. > > Wouldn't spamprobe take care of that already by inspecting the From > line (or From: header) and Received: header? > > By the way: Does spamprobe scan the From line (first line of a mail > containing the envelope FROM and the reception date) or the From: > header? Or both? The database seems to only contain one kind of from > (terms starting with "Hfrom_"). > > > Greetings, > Thomas. I don't know, but spamprobe was certainly failing to catch these before I included the header line, perhaps because the emails were all different elsewhere. In fact, I put an entry in procmail first to direct them slush file, before I found the -H option in spamprobe. (Actually, the flow of bounced emails seems to have diminished considerably today - sod's law, I suppose.) Anthony -- ac-MeA/[email protected] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/Debian || blog, book reviews, electronic Microsoft-free zone || books and skeptical articles ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click