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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#43216: acknowledged by developer (bounce feature uses wrong e-mail address)
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-05-30 17:46:24
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On Thursday 30 May 2002 17:57, Andrea Landaker wrote:
> > I think we should disable bouncing in KMail until we can or cannot
> > come up with a non-Mickey-Mouse implementation :-)
>
> So, purely from a user standpoint, this is a feature that used to
> work really well, and now only works sometimes.  Perhaps the
> "Mickey-Mouse" method that was being used previously

I am not aware of any change in that function from 2.2 to 3.0.

> There's no reason to remove a feature that is useful, even if it
> doesn't work 2% of the time.

But the feature is completely useless, since every spammer that sees 
such a message will see that it is faked (contains User-Agent: Kmail / 
hasn't got the right format / etc pp )... As such, it's downright 
dangerous since it fools people into the believe that it could reduce 
spam...

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/43/43216.html)
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