Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Emil Jerabek wrote:
This is quite possible, I get all Chuck's posts flagged as spam by SpamAssassin. I don't quite understand the logic involved, but something is apparently broken on either yahoo.com or *.dial-access.att.net, the header is included below for completeness.
Received: from yahoo.com +(25.hartford-02rh16rt-03rh15rt.ct.dial-access.att.net[12.76.130.25]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11) with SMTP id <200402240558151110000st6e>; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:58:15 +0000 From: CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net
* 2.6 FAKE_HELO_YAHOO Host HELO did not match rDNS: yahoo.comThis one is the biggest score item, and it seems to refer to the received header quoted (and some others might be as well).
AFAICS, it does look strange. Why would yahoo.com send mail to us via att.net? Chuck, do you happen to be sending your mail from a host at att.net, pretending to be yahoo.com? If so, that might be the source of the problem. Or do you actually send your mail through yahoo? Then yahoo would seem to do something strange ...
My outgoing mail always has the (legitimate) from address of yahoo.com, with a reply-to: address of worldnet.att.net. It is (usually) physically delivered to att.net. yahoo is a spam trap, which nowadays never seems to get any real mail because yahoo hasn't figured out that spam should be deleted, rather than allowed to fill the mailbox and prevent further reception! (yahoo fills within an hour)
In addition, my own filters automatically reject anything addressed to att.net (without the worldnet) as spam, in fact anything not addressed specifically to cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net. The filters use the [gpc] tag to bypass this for this list.
I do not want to use an invalid from address, and it is extremely inconvenient to change it back and forth between e-mail and newsgroups.