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, Brian Burton wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >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. > > I imagine this is working so well because only the bounces contain the > Return-Path and SP uses header specific tokens so any token from that > header will be spammy. > > In my mailbox all messages contain Return-Path so I'm not confident that > it would be as effective for me. > > All the best, > ++Brian Nearly all my emails have the Return-Path header but its actual content varies; only the spurious bounces have [email protected] I presume that spamprobe now knows that this is to be classed as spam. 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