On 14 March 2012 10:02, Seb Bacon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 14 March 2012 09:52, Alex Stapleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 14/03/12 08:26, Mark Goodge wrote:
> >>
> >> My guess is that what's happening is that they've taken the one-time
> >> address generated by WDTK for the first request, and then stored that in
> >> their system as your address, and any subsequent requests from you are
> being
> >> replied to that address. Or, more simply, whoever is replying is just
> >> looking for "Paul Perrin" in their Outlook address book and taking the
> first
> >> match.
> >
> > (I am making an awful lot of assumptions about how things work currently
> > here but...)
> >
> > What about instead of sending the message from
> >
> > "Paul Perrin <[email protected]>"
> >
> > You do
> >
> > "Paul Perrin [Title of FOIA Request] <[email protected]>"
> >
> > Obviously the responder can still screw up and choose the wrong return
> > address, this way does seem like it would make it easier to do the right
> > thing using the erroneous work-flow you described them using.
>
> It's a nice idea, but I wonder what massively long names in a From:
> field do to spam scores...
>

Seb
>

Hi,

I checked with the latest spamassassin rules and it notices if there are
multiple @ in the from address but doesn't seem to care about [] and from
address length.

So Shaun Laughey [How many @ did you use] <[email protected]> might be
marked as spam...

Other systems may vary.


Regards,
Shaun Laughey
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