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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:48:13 PDT
From:	"Benedict G. Archer" <bgarcher@gte.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: my mail looks like spam?

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"Benedict G. Archer" wrote:
>
>
> Someone I send mail to has informed me that my messages to him get
> filtered as spam because the headers lack a "FROM:" line. Well, they
> don't, but it's a few lines ahead of the "TO:" line. Here's an example:
>
> >From - Tue Oct 16 21:13:33 2001
> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> Message-ID: <3BCD056B.1A44316B@gte.net>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:13:31 -0700
> From: "Benedict G. Archer"
> Reply-To: bgarcher@gte.net
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (OS/2; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: [addressee deleted]
> Subject:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> [message body]
>
> All the messages I receive have a "FROM:" line immediately before the
> "TO:" line. Is there anything I can or should do about this? Is his
> spam filter too picky? As the header shows, I'm using Netscape 4.61
> (latest refresh I think).
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Archer

Thanks for the ref, Peter.

Could it be that his mail filter, looking for X-rated, is picking up the
"X-" in X-Mailer or X-Accept- in the lines between FROM: and TO:
looking?

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