Re: [Asrg] We really don't need no stinkin IMAP or POP foram button to M

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Mon, 08 February 2010 11:59 UTC

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--On 6 February 2010 15:38:04 -0500 John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

>
> I really don't understand all the resistance to a header applied by the
> MDA.  Yes, this will require a one-time change to the MDA, but you get a
> much more solid system that doesn't fail in mysterious ways when people
> have legitimate mail setups that happen to differ from the one the
> designer anticipated.  It's not unlike the advantage of DKIM over SPF.

If I see a message that I think is spam, and it carries a "report-abuse-to" 
header, how do I know that the header was added by the MDA and not by the 
spammer?

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Ian Eiloart
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