Good day to everyone,
You are going to laugh, but I signed up to this list just a day or two
ago in order to find out a few things about TB in order to perfect the
anti-spam mechnism that I just developed. Not really developed, just
added a few final touches to known techniques. The resulting thing is
extremely useful - in two days of testing I got about 200 spam
messages and only 2 wound up in my mailbox, but that's a separate
story.
The questions I have are the following:
1. I didn't find any way to configure TB to add custom headers to
outgoing messages. Looking through the archive I found out that it is
certainly not possible now, but will be possible in the future. Does
anyone know roughly when it will become available?
2. Somewhere in the archives I found message recommending XRay as
header modification filter. I downloaded it and started using it, and
it appears to behave. However, it's documentation doesn't match the
program, and the interface is very counter-intuitive. I wonder if
there is some expert on this list that could help me with two things:
* get TB to add _SEVERAL_ header lines with the same name, for
example:
Organization: one thing
Organization: another thing
Organization: yet another thing
* get XRay to replace the header names to different things. Say,
the first instance of "Organization" to become "Auto-Submitted",
the second - "X-Failed-Recipient", etc.
3. When I finish working on the "mechanism", I will also finish
writing a small page describing the filters used - i.e. how to combine
SpamPal, TheBat!, XRay and a few hopefully clever tricks to be very
effective and yet have no false positives. Is anyone interested in
this when it's done? The page is right now in Russian, but I can also
translate it into English, if anyone cares.
Thanks a lot!
Leo Landa.
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