Re: new photos from my party! >> I did not spam
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:03:08AM -0600, Mark Blunier wrote:
> Previously Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org):
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:00:07PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> > > I did not spam the debian lists. Please, listmaster, find out who is
> > > putting my address on their spams and unsubscribe them.
> >
> > Please have a more careful look at the mail headers.
> >
> > (a) Nobody put your address on their spam; there was just no From:
> > line, so something in your mail setup caused it to appear as if it
> > was from you.
>
> Most of my emails from the list do have a From: line, and they list
> the senders name. The 'spam' email that was sent also had a From:
> email line, but it had the 'bounce-debian-user=...' stuff that is
> normally in the 'From' line.
The main list archives, at least, don't show any 'From:' line on the
spam that started this thread. The 'From' line is synthesized in
Berkeley mbox (and similar mailbox formats) from the SMTP envelope
sender.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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