On Sun, Oct 19, 2003, listes [EMAIL PROTECTED], invoked powers within the internet realm, to proclaim ...
>cheshirekat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (...) >> The spammers are getting too smart for PM. > >This is not an issue with spammers. There is a setting in PM that allows >it to remember all of your previous correspondents, even if they aren't >in your addressbook, just for the sake of autocompleting addresses >better. Visibly you have it set. >Go to prefs, addressbook, and uncheck "history". >You will loose the autocompletion capability for those >not-in-addressbook recent adresses (not for those in addressbook). Well, I still think it stinks that this "feature" allows spammers to usurp my email address. Since I didn't type "Douglas" as the name to associate with my email address, I shouldn't see it pop up when I try to use address completion. PowerMail should be smarter than that since spammers are always using phony return/from addresses. I don't see that as too much to ask of PM. According to the address history, "cheshirekat" for [EMAIL PROTECTED] no longer existed when I scrolled the list to select the correct display name. PM allowed an address that *I* set to be replaced by one that I did not set, nor did I authorize the change. As I said, I did disable the address history since it obviously cannot be trusted. I'm not expecting PM to act as a SpamSieve type of application. I have filters set to act upon messages that I send to myself from one of my various email addresses. I didn't have it check the "display name" so this particular spam ended up in a non-trash folder as it met the criteria of the filter I created. What I do expect is for the settings I create for MY email address to not be changed by an incoming message I might receive. You are correct, it is not an issue with spammers, it IS an issue with PowerMail. But, it was because of spammers that this obvious problem with PM was exposed. Had I known this was a possible side effect or weakness of PM, I would never have enabled the address history. cheshirekat
