On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 12:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK I take a mail to me and 'redirect' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As Mary, I open the mail which says: > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (resent as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... > > > > Wow! bizare! > > Now the same mail form maxine to jam bounced to mary (in > kmail, done > > properley) > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... > > > > THAT's a bounce. jam is not mentioned in mary's mail > > I wouldn't call it a bounce if it's rewriting the From: header > (although > evolution does add a new Envelope-From: header that things > like Outlook > can pick up on).
I guess that it is what the RFC calls it. Mailers like mail. elm, mutt do it right. The GUI mailers have their knickers in a knot. The bayesian filters on spam assassin need to learn that mail From: BadGuys To: Learner is tagged as spam, but all permutations of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is NOT spam Thanks for help and comments James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
