On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 23:33 -0400, W Randolph Franklin wrote: > Concerning this: > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:36:08 -0500 > > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Evolution] [EMAIL PROTECTED] address format, was Re: how > > to edit 'from' line when composing > > To: [email protected] > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 22:50 -0400, W Randolph Franklin wrote: > > [snip] > > > 3. Why not use a filter to "sort" replies? > > > > > > What's the invariant that I would sort on? The sender and the subject > > > may change, say if the sender passes my address on to someone else. > > > However my address can't if the mail is to reach me. > > > > It depends. > > > > For this list, it's : > > ^X-BeenThere: [email protected] > > > That won't work if someone on this list puts my address into his contact > and later mails me. > > That also won't work to identify and block which business sold my > address to spammers. > > It won't even work to sort mail from good businesses who change their > address slightly. This is particularly relevant since there are > apparent subtleties to the filtering that I haven't figured out yet.
Ah. I use postfix+mailfilter+imap/maildir, and just use Evo filters for outbound mail. > The unique property of user+subject is that (if I implement a few other > things also) is that if someone deletes or changes the tag, then he > can't mail me. I.e., anonymity is not possible. Phishing me becomes > harder. If I give paypal an address of [EMAIL PROTECTED], then > mail to any other address pretending to be from paypal is fake. > > Another way to do this is to buy your own domain and give everyone a > different address, i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is useful since > some braindead web forms refuse to accept certain valid addresses, e.g., > with plusses. However using this also requires editing 'from' lines > (or creating lots of accounts). You make good point. Wishlist it (giving reasoned justifications), and see what happens... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "There are no friends at cards or world politics." Finley Peter Dunne
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