[spambayes-dev] 1.0 Build Testing (please!)

[Kenny Pitt]

Tony Meyer <tameyer at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> This is something I had never noticed before (I very seldom actually use OE
> for anything but testing).  It seems that although we add "unsure," (etc) to
> the To list, OE strips the comma off the end.  If you look in the preview
> pane, it has "unsure; ta-meyer at ihug.co.nz" (etc), with no comma.  If you
> change the rule to just look for "spam" it'll work (but I think it will also
> fire for spambayes at python.org, too).

I don't use Outlook Express either so I'm just guessing, but from the
looks of it Outlook Express is treating the comma as a separator
between two e-mail addresses. This would be consistent with the
address-list definition in RFC 2822.

We may need to consider some changes to the format of the information
we add. The spec seems to indicate that the { and } characters are
legal in an e-mail address, but I've rarely if ever seen them used.
Maybe something like "{spam}original at address" instead of the
comma-separator? It would obviously require people to modify their
filter rules, but it doesn't appear that rules for the current format
would work correctly anyway.

-- 
Kenny Pitt