David S. Madole wrote: >> I did consider that. The headers on their own don't seem to >> be a free pass, but they do help. Otherwise any old spammer >> could spam all the hotmail addresses they wanted. > > Except that it's expensive for spammers to send large messages because they > are sending millions. Every extra byte is multiplied by a large factor. > > Likewise, it's not at all unusual for SpamAssassin installations to bypass > scanning for messages over some certain size because scanning is expensive, > so Hotmail is not nearly unique in this.
I was directly referencing the concept of adding fake In-Reply-To and Reference headers here, not the addition of the "fodder" headers, otherwise you'd be correct. Mike -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
