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Subject: Re: TMDA (was: new spam functionality added)
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Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>>>>>> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc):
>> Actually, it's the envelope sender,
>
> That's bad.  It should be the actual From: header used in the
> message.

Why?

> Is this configurable in TMDA?

I don't this so, but check the website if you really want to know.

> 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.

Sounds like your configuration was a little broken.  (Yes, his mailer
was too.)


paul