Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: New message header format causing spam

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3: Re: New message header format causing spam (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 02/12/03 06:56 PM

I think the Reply-to and From headers are mixed up. Why would I want to reply to the notification bot?

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4: Re: New message header format causing spam (response to 3)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 02/12/03 08:12 PM
Mat Kovach just posted a solution to this which will going to be applied soon hopefully.

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=79109

Tom: Replying to the notification bot makes sense for forums for the case when the reply-by-email functionality is enabled. I don't know how mailing lists _should_ handle this but some handle it the same way, e.g. Reply-To is set to the list address (and there are some people who have fanatic opinions about the right settings).

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5: Re: New message header format causing spam (response to 4)
Posted by Steve Manning on 02/13/03 06:53 PM
One of the most noticable absences for me is message threading. My mail client has message threading enabled on the folder for my subscribed OpenACS messages but I don't see any threading as the In-Reply-To header is not implemented.

Are there any plans to implement the In-Reply-To header?

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6: Re: New message header format causing spam (response to 5)
Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 02/13/03 08:23 PM
Steve,

In-Reply-To headers require a redesign of the notifications package. Our recent changes improve upon the headers but can't achieve everything without an overhaul of the notifications package.

Such an overhaul would require all packages that depend on notifications to change too. Matt mentioned that he would like to further improve notifications but I don't know what his time table is.

/Bart

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7: Re: New message header format causing spam (response to 6)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 02/13/03 08:32 PM
You would need the In-Reply-To and References header, and a Message-Id generation in acs-mail-lite for a start. The latter is implemented in Mat's modified acs-mail-lite package. I and propably others are interested in this also, so if Mat can't finish it me or someone else will pick it up for sure.