Re: TMDA (was: new spam functionality added)

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc):

> David Masterson <dsm@rawbw.com> wrote:

>> This means that the "From" or "Reply-to" address on their email now
>> has to be valid so that TMDA can send confirmation email to their
>> auto-confirmer.

> Actually, it's the envelope sender,

That's bad.  It should be the actual From: header used in the
message.  Is this configurable in TMDA?

> which may or may not be easy for the recipient to look at, depending
> on all the software standing between them and their mail.

Or it could disappear completely.

I just found an email message from a cousin of mine in the SPAM
folder, when checking it for false positives.  I let all messages not
adressed directly to me, or to a mailing list I subscribe to, "drop
through" into a spam folder, which I check occasionally. His email
program had in its infinite wisdom (billware...) decided to use the
envelope address, instead of the From: address.  And the envelope
address wasn't in the list of official addresses in the filter.

By your description, all TMDA confirmation messages will end up in my
spam folder, and not be read until the next time