I agree. That and the fact that RFCs are non-enforceable standards. There are many cases of RFCs not being followed. We can't just decide which non-RFC situations to handle and which not. We also cannot force all non-standard mailers to adapt to our requirements. We must accept mail and process it appropriately, since we cannot control the sending parameters. This is especially true when all it entails on our part is handling an additional case while parsing the message.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <declude.junkmail@declude.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:30 AM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] declude not modifying subject line Hi David: Pardon me - but lets not forget that we choose to pay Declude license and maintenance fees, precisely because of its claim of being superior in detecting viruses, vulnerabilities and RFC violations that other components are known to letting through. When your business model is based on the premise that you will be closing the holes that other components leave, then Declude cannot retreat behind an argument that you are "only as defect as the other guys". Clearly, if Imail/Smartermail did act appropriately and offered all the features it should, then you wouldn't have a customer base in the first place. Best Regards Andy Schmidt Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barker Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:02 AM To: declude.junkmail@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] declude not modifying subject line Herb, I need to clarify something here. This source of this problem is that these messages do not conform to the RFC's and are extremely broken and should not be accepted by the mail server in the first place. That is the source of the problem, Declude is showing the symptom. Have you approached SmarterMail/Imail and asked them to fix this issue, either not accept the message or apply message standardization ? What was their response ? With that said, we are working on correcting this problem because clearly the Mail server is not doing it. Secondly, there are alternatives to marking the Subject line and having the mail server take action based on the headers. You could use actions like. # MAILBOX will move the E-mail to a user's folder (no, not a Windows directory) # ROUTETO will re-route the E-mail to an alternate address # HOLD will hold the message in the spool\spam directory. David B --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.