These questions are appropriately being addresses on the Declude JunkMail
list.

John T
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] percent sybols in the To: lines?
> 
> I just started using Declude for Imail and I'm trying to understand why
> my mail server is sending so many messages to the quarantine folders
> instead of just marking the headers.  The only test I have set to
> quarantine/HOLD is the PERCENT test and when I look at the messages
> being quarantined, none of them have a percent symbol in the To: line.
> Since there are so many messages failing this test, I am concerned that
> there is legitimate content I am missing, though I have yet to find one
> from the hundred thousand messages it caught just yesterday.
> 
> Basically it tests to see if there is a percent sign in the To: line of
> the incoming email and if there is, it quarantines the message.
> Apparently this is a means to get around relay restrictions.  It seems
> too good to be true that such a simple test would catch so much SPAM.
> 
> The questions I'm trying to answer are:
> 
> How does a percent sign get around a relay restriction?
> 
> Is Imail aware of this issue and what are the problems with what I am
> now doing; removing mail with a percent sign in the To: line, though I
> don't see it in the mail, when I open it up.
> 
> I'm running Imail 8.15 on 2003.
> 
> 
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