[Mailman-Developers] Suggestion on Spam

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sat Mar 5 02:04:17 CET 2005


At 3:43 PM -0500 2005-03-04, Terri Oda quoted Rui Correia:

>>  Would it be feasible to create a feature that would automate a search for a
>>  pre-agreed phrase set by list owner typed on each individual email posted to
>>  a list?
>
>  How does the email authentication thing work right now?  I may be
>  mis-remembering, but I think you can stick a header in to make your
>  messages automatically authorized.  If this sort of thing is already
>  built in, extending it to search more than the one header shouldn't
>  be impossible.

	You can put on an "Approved:" header.  They're trivially easy to fake.

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