https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6089
--- Comment #1 from Justin Mason <[email protected]> 2009-03-23 05:45:31 PST --- (In reply to comment #0) > My understanding of perl is limited, but you seem to be trying to compare the > (envelope) sender and (header) recipient addresses somehow -- as if I'm only > allowed to send email to myself, perhaps? it looks like the rule checks to see if the To: address' domain, then one char, then the user part, then an @ appear in the envelope-from address. there's an exclusion if the envelope-sender address starts with SRS0=, however. is there any way you can use that equals char? > Is there a coherent explanation somewhere of what this test is trying to do? > > It seems completely bogus to me. The address encoded in the envelope sender is > the original _sender_ address, and bears no relation to the recipient in the > To: header, who may not be an actual recipient of the mail at all (it could > Resent-To: someone else). So comparing the two seems... odd. it detects a behaviour observed in spam. far be it from us to figure out why spammers do what they do... we just give them points for it. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug.
