Hi;
I guess one thing that has always confused me about this is simply why would
anyone want to use a free service such as Yahoo and send legitimate emails
with a different return address?

What I can see from those that use Yahoo, hotmail or other free services are
two fold:

1:  People who don't want to use their company email for personal
communication
2:  People who don't have any other email address and use free services such
as Yahoo

In both of these legitimate scenarios I can't imagine anyone using a
different return address.  

Would this actually be indicative of spam? Someone using Yahoo servers with
a different return address?

Something else that I can also see is someone using a different server
sending and have Yahoo as return address.  Why would anyone use a free
service for return address when one has access to a private mail server?

Perhaps this discussion belongs to the Junkmail group.

Just brainstorming... Has anyone given the variations much thought?

Regards,
Kami


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> The disadvantage to this it that it would give a weight of -8 to 
> E-mail from a valid yahoo.com mailserver that was sent with a 
> non-Yahoo return address.
>
>                                                     -Scott

Under what circumstances would this happen?  Does Yahoo provide mail
services for other companies and their domains?  I would imagine mail from
Yahoo's mail servers would always be from Yahoo or their users, right?

I'm excited about trying:

> MAILFROM  8  CONTAINS  @yahoo.com
> REVDNS  -8  CONTAINS  .yahoo.com

But I want to be sure I understand your caution first.

Thanks Scott!

--Todd.

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