From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1336 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: scoring and fake From lines Date: 13 Oct 2002 19:13:35 -0700 Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Message-ID: <86of9xsr74.fsf@kronstadt.homeunix.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668128 10857 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:59 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews3 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-892.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1476 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1476 Tue Jan 17 17:28:59 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1336 Archived-At: Wolfgang> Has someone written any hacks to allow scoring down fake Wolfgang> From lines? Ideally I'd like to penalize syntactically Wolfgang> incorrect From: lines and From: lines that don't have Wolfgang> hostnames that exist in DNS. Essentially I'd like to Wolfgang> perform the same tests in gnus that any decent MTA performs Wolfgang> when it receives email. Any decent MTA ignores the headers, with the exception of adding a Received: header :) If they do checking, it is based on the "envelope" (the information extracted from the SMTP dialog with the sending machine). However, here's what helped me in a similar situation (I don't do filtering with gnus): I downloaded the source for spamassassin and studied its tests. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. I did not vote for Emperor Bush. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087