[support] Spammers

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 31 11:48:02 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Alison wrote:
> Hi,
>
> out of general interest much of the Linux email anti-spam software adds a prefix to the subject line of emails denoting them to contain SPAM. So contributors may find that posts to this particular thread get hived off to their trash bin by virtue of having the word SPAM in the subject matter.

Yea, but the mail client is what would filter that to the SPAM folder.
 Usually the subject prefix is [SPAM] or whatever the server admin
decided it should be.  The client should filter the entire prefix
string, this one doesn't contain [].

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