Subject: what is X-Uidl ?

From: Lucio Chiappetti <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:50:58 +0200

Sorry for the slight off-topic. 
I am trying to get rid of unwanted SPAM, and I've set up procmail with a
"blacklist" of spammers. But of course I'm receiving mail from NEW spammers,
so I have to add their address manually to the blacklist.

I've noticed that most spams include an X-Uidl: field in their header.
What is the purpose of this field, and which s/w generates it ?
Can I be confident to get rid of all messages containing such field, i.e. are
they all spam and no "good" messages ?

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From: [email-masked] (Nir Soffer)
Date: 24 Jun 1997 16:43:32 GMT

Lucio Chiappetti ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Sorry for the slight off-topic. 
: I am trying to get rid of unwanted SPAM, and I've set up procmail with a
: "blacklist" of spammers. But of course I'm receiving mail from NEW spammers,
: so I have to add their address manually to the blacklist.

: I've noticed that most spams include an X-Uidl: field in their header.
: What is the purpose of this field, and which s/w generates it ?
: Can I be confident to get rid of all messages containing such field, i.e. are
: they all spam and no "good" messages ?

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: Lucio Chiappetti - IFCTR/CNR - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)      
: For more info : http://www.ifctr.mi.cnr.it/~lucio/personal.html             
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From: Steven Whatley <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Jun 1997 18:14:41 GMT

Lucio Chiappetti <[email-masked]> wrote:

Whenever I add a new spam filter, I send the "spam" to a folder named 
Junk.  Once I'm statisfied that the new filter is only catching span, 
than I change the filter to send the stuff to /dev/null.

Later,
Steven
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