On 04/27/2013 01:05 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Saturday 27 Apr 2013 01:36:07 Martin Nyhus wrote:
>> On 03/29/2013 12:33 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>>> On Friday 29 Mar 2013 00:07:42 Martin Nyhus wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure how to handle the **SPOOFED** issue properly. For 
>>>> now the easiest thing might be to not check the From header if 
>>>> the sending identity has been whitelisted by the user. Not a
>>>> very user friendly solution, but the only one I can think of
>>>> right now (except dropping the check completely).
>>> 
>>> What does it mean?
>> 
>> When a message is received Freemail checks that the address in the 
>> From header is the same as the address of the identity that we got
>> the message from. If the two don't match, **SPOOFED** is added to
>> the name part of the From header. The problem with mailing lists is
>> obviously that the sender will be the mailing list operator, so the
>> check fails.
>> 
>> Sorry about taking so long to reply to this.
>> 
> I haven't received freemails for a while but in the past I've seen
> SPOOFED on pretty much every message I've received. Maybe that was a
> bug in an old version though...

Might have been. Also, some people had their email clients set up
incorrectly, making it use the wrong address etc. I haven't seen it
lately, probably because most people just use the web mail now.

(Forgot to send this to the list, sorry about the dups toad)

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