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

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 04:15:00PM -0500, David Wright wrote:

[...]

> > If I receive spam and wish to report it to my ISP, I BOUNCE the
> > message, so as not to disturb the "evidence" or "scene of the crime".
> 
> I remain unconvinced. If you forward an email as an attachment, then
> its containment in the attachment protects it from modification.
> OTOH if you bounce it, the header that you received can be modified,
> and have lines added in the normal course of transit through MTAs.

They are easy to sort out automatically. Unless some agent in transit
intentionally munges them, but then, any mail could -- unless it's
signed. So what?

> In addition, if the original email contained a malicious gotcha, you
> expose the recipient of the bounced email to the same risk that you
> presumably have just avoided.

Mail? Malicious? Gothcha? You gotta have the wrong MUA ;-)

Cheers
-- t

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