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

[Seth Goodman]

> From: Kenny Pitt
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:24 AM

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> 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.

I don't use OE for anything but newsreading, but it seems that the putting
'spam' or 'unsure' in the To: header, where one expects an address, is
pretty odd.  As far as legal address characters, there are different rules
for the domain part and the local part, and I doubt that MS paid any
attention to those, anyway.  There are no rules for a string like 'Spam',
which contains neither a FQDN nor an "@" and is therefore not a legitimate
address.

Isn't it possible to modify the Subject: header and write a rule to filter
on that?  The only limitations there are 7-bit US-ASCII with the exception
of the control codes, <CR><LF> and 0x7F.  Suitable strings for the Subject:
header might be '{Spam} ' and '{Unsure} ', as the curly braces would rarely
be seen in real mail subjects.

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Seth Goodman