>>>>Although it would be nice to have control over it, I'm sure most people
>would just disable it, which ruins its original intent.<<<
>
> IMail List Server generates the precedence line so that the IMail
> server can prioritize, right?
No. I'm pretty sure that IMail doesn't look at that header when sending the mail (or
receiving mail with such a header). It just adds it so that the receiving server
knows that it is listserver traffic, and not a personally written E-mail.
> If this is used internally, why does it have to be a red flag for AOL?
Because they are bozos. They likely had some executive get a spam that had the
header, and the executive told the programmers to look for it.
The fact is less than 1% of the spam in our spam database has a "Precedence:" header
(about 3% of those are 'list', the other 97% 'bulk'). Over 7% of the mail in our
non-spam database has a precedence header (although 2% are 'bulk' and 98% 'list').
What would be nice would be if IMail allowed you to choose between 'bulk' and 'list'.
That way, the intent of the Precedence: header would still work.
If someone wanted to be daring, they could use a hex editor to imailsrv.exe and change
the two instances of 'Precedence: bulk' to 'Precedence: list' and see if AOL accepted
it.
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-Scott
Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com
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