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Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever



On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:15:16PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:41:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:21:02PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Apparently the "official" name (to be confirmed) is "remailing" and it 
> > > involves resending the message (mostly untouched) to another address. 
> > 
> > Ah, I see. I was betting on "forwarding", but later it occurred to me
> > that this would wrap the original message (probably without headers :-(
> > into a part of a multi-part MIME. Drats. Probably you are right.
> 
> As far as I know "forwarding as attachment" does not affect the original 
> message (though this may depend on the client), however it is *not* 
> appropriate for this particular use-case. I'm guessing because it would 
> be difficult to distinguish the forwarded message from other 
> (legitimate) mime parts.

I'll try whenever I have a thunderbird around. Don't hold your breath,
though :-)

If there's any thunderbird expert here: hey, tell us how that works,
and I promise to edit the Debian wiki :-)

The problem with the attachment thing is -- we don't know whether the
automaton at report-listspam@l.d.o is set up to deal with that.

Cheers
-- t

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