von carolyns » 10. Dez 2004, 01:55
Dieter -
In the example mail you posted, would your correct email address have been in the regular Cc: (rather than a Bcc) ?
When you get a mail via Bcc do any of the Received lines include the word "for" followed by one of your correct email addresses?
All of the blind CC's so far that I have examined in my mailbox, somewhere in one of the Received lines, includes the word "for" followed by one of my email addresses.
Keeping in mind that the purpose of Addressee filter is to screen out mail sent to incorrect addresses (such as when your correct email address is a hosted alias and you get spam to the underlying @isp.com address)..
Here is what I would like to do, if all (or most) Bcc'd messages, somewhere in a Received line, contain "for email-address":
If one of your correct email addresses does not appear in any To, Cc, Received line, mark the message as spam.
I might make the Received check an option because people who receive few valid Bcc's and many spam ones to their correct email addresses may wish to have all non-friend Bcc's marked as spam (or high chance of spam) and add their friendly Bcc senders to their friends list.
I considered the possibility of an option checkbox to pass From-same-as-To-or-Cc messages, BUT it would really screw up the program logic which scans the header in order, using the linked list of header fields. If From always appeared above To, this would work and I could cache the From name and add it to my checks against To and CC. However, I looked at the source of several messages and found To before From in many of them. This would mean all mail headers would have to be scanned twice if I implemented such an option.
Carolyn
Dieter -
In the example mail you posted, would your correct email address have been in the regular Cc: (rather than a Bcc) ?
When you get a mail via Bcc do any of the Received lines include the word "for" followed by one of your correct email addresses?
All of the blind CC's so far that I have examined in my mailbox, somewhere in one of the Received lines, includes the word "for" followed by one of my email addresses.
Keeping in mind that the purpose of Addressee filter is to screen out mail sent to incorrect addresses (such as when your correct email address is a hosted alias and you get spam to the underlying @isp.com address)..
Here is what I would like to do, if all (or most) Bcc'd messages, somewhere in a Received line, contain "for email-address":
If one of your correct email addresses does not appear in any To, Cc, Received line, mark the message as spam.
I might make the Received check an option because people who receive few valid Bcc's and many spam ones to their correct email addresses may wish to have all non-friend Bcc's marked as spam (or high chance of spam) and add their friendly Bcc senders to their friends list.
I considered the possibility of an option checkbox to pass From-same-as-To-or-Cc messages, BUT it would really screw up the program logic which scans the header in order, using the linked list of header fields. If From always appeared above To, this would work and I could cache the From name and add it to my checks against To and CC. However, I looked at the source of several messages and found To before From in many of them. This would mean all mail headers would have to be scanned twice if I implemented such an option.
Carolyn