Tuesday, 17. May 2005
More on X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728)
One reader pointed out in a comment to my last post on this subject that this was a real header and not simple fabrication. I now have in my hands a genuine sample of a non-spam email bearing that header so can thus confirm that this is indeed so.
Spam here bearing this header outnumbers real email by a factor of several hundred to one. Seems Apple Mail is beginning to suffer the same fate as The Bat though it has a long way to go to catch up.
As of now, we still filter on this header with an exception to handle known friendly domains that use the Apple mailer (current population: 1).
Category: Spamatomy
Technorati: Spamatomy
Spam here bearing this header outnumbers real email by a factor of several hundred to one. Seems Apple Mail is beginning to suffer the same fate as The Bat though it has a long way to go to catch up.
As of now, we still filter on this header with an exception to handle known friendly domains that use the Apple mailer (current population: 1).
Category: Spamatomy
Technorati: Spamatomy
Comments :
1. Richard Schwartz17/05/2005 12:36:04
Homepage: http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf
Minor point, but isn't it more likely the individual sender rather than the domain that should be listed as an exception?
-rich
2. Chris Linfoot17/05/2005 12:40:47
Yes. But I really can't be bothered to maintain a list that long.
Mac users are hive dwellers and tend to congregate. Sure there may be users at domains I have exempted from this rule who do not use Macs, but I know these people and can say with confidence that the Mac users outnumber the 'doze users by a fair margin, so a blanket rule does actually make some sense.
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