getting bogofilter feedback to the mail server.

Tom Allison tallison at tacocat.net
Thu Sep 21 00:56:01 CEST 2006


Tom Anderson wrote:
> John G Walker wrote:
>> You are making the assumption here that the Return-Path is not spoofed,
>> which seems to me a highly dubious assumption. Why would a spammer be
>> so honest?
> 
> Indeed, the only unspoofable part of an email is the first received line 
> which was generated by your own mail server.  But even there the helo 
> string can be spoofed.
> 

Then the only real string I can work from is that received-by line and if that 
line has a high score by itself.  The idea being that, like viagra, it too will 
quickly approach 1.00 and at some threshold I would opt to simply reject 
delivery at the door rather than run it through all the delivery processes to 
only have it whacked by bogofilter.



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