It is much easier to talk about this is you talk to us instead of down to us... FWIW I implemented an SMTP gateway about 20 years ago on the MIT PhoneNet project in the very early days...
Some of us do have a clue what is going on, so instead of trying to prove how bad you think TMDA is why not make suggestions and provide references and let the other smart people on this list consider your points? > Yes. TMDA challenges and/or TMDA "confirmation confirmations" will Great! I think we like to fix bugs > _not_ make it past the spam filter that I am building at the present > time, and that is actually because of _three_ separate a different > screw-ups. (It is hardly possible to have botched automatic responses > any more badly than has been done in TMDA.) > > Look at the confirmation confirmation message attached below. There are > three separate problems with this: > > 1) It uses "Precedence: bulk" instead of "Precedence: junk", thus > flaunting and ignoring the PRE-EXISTING and well-established > conventions used by 80% of the world's other software packages > that automatically generate one-shot automated e-mail responses. What packages? > 2) It fails to include the Message-ID: of the message that it is a > response to, either in an In-Reply-To: header or in a References: > header. To re-phrase that: >> 2) You might want to consider including the Message-ID: of the >> message that it is a response to, either in an In-Reply-To: >> header or in a References: header. There does not seem to be much harm in that, worth considering > 3) Last and worst, this message was sent using a null envelope > sender > address (represented here by "MAILER-DAEMON" which is how my own > local mail server interprets and re-writes null envelope sender > address). > No human and no autoresponder should be using null envelope sender > addresses for any purpose other than UNDELIVERABLE BOUNCE notifi- > cations. That sounds right too, but since the handling of that can get strange I'll let jason address that one. Looking at your message I see you are using Version 0.57, a lot of things have changed since we are now on 1.0... If we Talk TO each other we can get a LOT more done... tom _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
