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Re: Remailer abuse?




> The original remailer I wrote added the header field Remailed-By to indicate this.

Custom headers in RFC822 messages must begin with "X-".  Making up
new headers that dont begin with "X-" is unnessary and violates
the standard.

> You could also use another standard 822 field, Sender, as follows:

> 	Sender: anonymous remailing service <remailer@host>

Unfortunatly, some broken mail user agents reply to "Sender" instead
of "From" or "Reply-To" (which also violates the standard).


brad