[SC-Help] Re: How did this find my mailbox

[Blammo]

On 11 Feb 2005 Fred k entered spamcop.help and left
news:cuir96$tcc$1 at news.spamcop.net: 

> Well I did send from another ISP to 2 email addresses at my ISP,
> including my own. My address still appeared in ORCPT and the for field
> of the header. 
> 

Well there may be another reason why this is happening and I havn't 
narrowed it down yet, but I believe it has something to do with the way the 
mail-to is formed, for example 
"user at domain.dom" <user at domain.dom>
may trigger this. I know that in certain cases (on my mail server), where 
the message is not sent to multiple recipients, the header does not appear, 
though I don't run the same mail server as your ISP so the cause may be 
different. Also you can depend on good mail software (even Outlook) to send 
well formatted commands, while spamware that directly connects to your ISP 
mail server is completely unpredictable.
This could've also been a "glitch" and may rarely or never happen again. 
Speaking of glitches my ISP had a strange problem for a time where 
spamassassin would occasionally not run (no spamassassin headers in the 
message at all), but every time I tested it, it always worked. It seems to 
have been fixed since they upgraded spamassassin, I have no idea whether it 
was the upgrade or some "glitch" somewhere else, they of course never tell 
you because they never do anything wrong.

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| Ric