>-----Message d'origine----- >De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Stefano Pascucci >Envoy=E9 : lundi 15 septembre 2008 20:42 >=C0 : [email protected] >Objet : [xmail] Question about spam-address.tab filtering > > >Hi all > >I have noticed an annoying problem regarding spam-address filtering. > >If I'm not wrong, it seems that email address filtering is processed=20 >using the "from" email address extracted from the "Received:..."=20 >header tag.
Yes (but not 'extracted' from the "Received:" headers, it comes from = MAIL FROM: smtp command sent by the sender mta to xmail, then xmail use it = for spam-address check and later to generate it's own 'Received:' header) > >If that assumption is right, if I put into the spam-address.tab file=20 >any email address simply picked up from the "From:" header tag, any=20 >message coming from this email address will be filtered really out=20 >_only_ if that specific address is exactly the same one that we can=20 >find inside the "Received:.." header string. Yes xmail only check that MAIL FROM value matchs or not an entry in = spam-address But remember that spam-address can content wildcard entries (like = [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) so 'exactly' is not allways true ;-) > >I try to be more clear :-) > Allready clear :) >I have received one message containing these header strings (real=20 >domains substituted): > >- Received: from <- snipped out -> from=20 ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >- From: zzzzzzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >In that case, I had the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" email address in my=20 >spam-address.tab, but that email passed the filter anyway Yes > >Many spammers do that: is there a way to both check the "Received:"=20 >and the "From:" email fields? it should be more restrictive. > spam-address is a very simple way to 'filter', imoo Davide will not complicate it as "You can do like u want with a filter" :) >I hope to have been clear enough... Yes :) >Thank you in advance > no problem :) Francis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
