[imp] Generating From headers with a catch-all email address?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Eric Jon Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>>> I see the argument for including the code to support the hook, but not
>>> provide his actual hook code...  Then people who do want a pre-reply hook
>>> would be able to write one (say, maybe it checks for replies to known
>>> phishing addresses, or something else potentially useful).
>>
>> We always provide examples, for a good reason. If we are going to  
>> add that hook, we should find a useful example. If we don't find  
>> one, then the hook doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding, I can think of a couple potential ones...
>
> We could poll EDU horde/imp installs about the phishing example
> above...  Lots of talk about this kind of thing on EDU mailing lists,
> and a lot of EDU's use Horde/IMP...   The EDU's have a list of phishing
> replies, mostly used now at the MTA, but could be useful at the MUA also
> for user education in addition to stoping the phish replies...

That sounds useful.

> Could also be something about "replying to list" when the list sets
> the reply-to to be the list address instead of the sender...  An
> "are you sure" kind of thing...
>
> I don't see a use for the original topic (change from based on reply)
> but I can see where other cases might be useful (stop/verify replies to
> certain addresses, etc).

Jan.

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