On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tuesday, Dec 1, 2015 6:11 PM Chris Lewis wrote:
>> When your cat's litter box gets infected with, say, cutwail, spewing 
>> gazillions of copies of randomized "come do X to my Y!" exhortations, you're 
>> not giving the receiver (ML or ad-hoc) very much to distinguish between that 
>> and your pearls of wisdom.
>
> Er, no, the cat box doesn't have my credentials nor know my email address, so 
> it can't send spam from me.   If it sends spam from someone other than me, 
> the Received header field makes my /legitimate/ email look more like spam, 
> because both the cat's spam and my legitimate email have the same IP address 
> in the Received header field.

Is that a hobbyist configuration? Is it relevant? It sounds a bit like
a cat and the hat both sharing a NAT. But in a very common high volume
production email scenario used by email service providers, clients and
types of mail are segregated by sending IP address.

>  In this case I /definitely/ don't want the Received header field.

Noted that you don't. Just adding my voice: I do want it.

Regards,
Al Iverson

--
Al Iverson - Minneapolis - (312) 275-0130
Simple DNS Tools since 2008: xnnd.com
www.spamresource.com & aliverson.com

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