On Fri, 24 May 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

>
> Hallo xmail,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> This is a Spammers sender (From:) address I got his Spam with.
>
> I have this in my Spammers list:
> yahoo.co.kr
> co.kr
> ..co.kr
>
> Now, I have in the spam-address.tab file these entries:
> ".*@yahoo.co.kr"
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> ".co.kr"
> "yahoo.co.kr"
>
> Is only the Return-Path: address checked against spam-address.tab
> and not the From: part, or why do I get still these Spams
> (delivered through fetchmail to my XMail mailbox)=3F

the spam-address.tab syntax is incorrect. it should be :

"*@yahoo.co.kr"

but XMail does not look at the From: field inside the message headers but
it looks at the "MAIL FROM:<...>" address.
besides blocking spammers from address is not that effective.



- Davide


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