Thus said Ken Hornstein on Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:29:45 -0400: > Thirdly ... I think it's ridiculous that Stanford's anti-spam rules > trawl through Received headers (which are defined as being free-form) > and look for suspicious hostnames when you've already sent that email > through your email provider and it has a valid DKIM header; gmail has > already certified that the email came from an authenticated user, why > does Stanford care what your local hostname is?
I too initially thought that their anti-spam rules were a bit draconian to care whether the HELO host is localhost.localdomain or any other user provided piece of information, however, after some reflection, I realized that they may have a bayesian filter that has automatically assigned a 99% spam probability to the word ``localhost.localdomain'' based on the statistical influence of past spam messages containing it. Of course, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt of having such an intelligently designed anti-spam mechanism... :-) Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 4000000055385994 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
