info about spam messages

Tom Anderson tanderso at oac-design.com
Thu Jun 17 15:46:42 CEST 2004


From: "David Relson" <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> issue, bogofilter already had the idea of IPADDR.  It doesn't have any
> concept of EMAIL_ADDR.  In fact, "@" is a delimiter, so
> "username at domain.com" becomes two separate tokens "username" and
> "domain.com".

I've always had an issue with this.  @ should not be a delimiter.  In what
sense does it ever break up tokens except in an email address?  And breaking
up email addresses is like saying everyone on the same street is a criminal
just because one guy is.  The @ should be removed from the set of
delimiters, and that would solve part of the problem.  Now, I'm not saying
that logging the FROM address would be useful, but you already have code to
detect a domain, right?  So, if you were inclined to detect an email, it
would essentially be [a-zA-Z_\-.+]+\@$DOMAIN.

Tom




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