On 06/22/02 at 22:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So, Dmitry, can we get the spamtrap to function on From addresses too?
>
> This one had a Return-Path: and an X-Apparently-From: as well,
> though those happened to not be spamtraps on my system this time.
> Can the spamtrap be made to function on *any* header lines that
> contain a designated spamtrap address?
Doubtful. The router (and SIMS in general) doesn't look into the body of
messages at all, and the headers are really part of the message body from the
POV of SMTP -- i.e., they're sent in the DATA portion of the message. The
Reply-To address, on the other hand, reflects a message's envelope sender --
i.e., the RCPT TO address from the SMTP conversation. I'm not privy to the
details of what SIMS' code actually does, but I would imaging that making the
router act on header lines would probably open a pretty large can of worms in
terms of the programming. It's really beyond the scope of SIMS anyway, since
SIMS is a simple SMTP server and, as such, it shouldn't be concerned with the
content of messages. To be honest, that's a large part of SIMS' appeal to many
of us. If you need to be able to filter mail based on content, you need to
either do it on the client side (where, arguably, it belongs anyway), or step
up to a server package that goes beyond the SMTP protocol. Communigate Pro, if
one can afford it, would be a good choice for someone coming from SIMS.
> >Hi Bill,
> >
> >What spammers are doing recently is setting the "from" address to
> >another name they know of on your same system, to increase the
> >chance that you will open the message. The spamtrap, your wife, and
> >others are just some of the names they probably harvested from your
> >system when they made a pass through it.
> >
> >At 6:42 PM -0500 6/22/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>This is an interesting twist...
> >>
> >>My wife just got a spam from one of my spamtrap addresses.
> >>
> >>How is this possible? The name in the FROM was definitely a
> >>spamtrap; the Reply-To address was from some other system entirely.
> >>
> >>Shouldn't SIMS have picked that one up? Are the %*&*^ spammers
> >>learning new tricks?
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