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It is a difficult one Jules.  More constants have to be included in the
hash, that are also very difficult to spoof.  I have having a look at the
RFC to see what I can come up with.

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:51:17 +0100, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Quite possibly. Can you see any way around this problem?
> 
> - --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>> Another question :) If you were to send a email to a mailing list, like
>> this one, could a spammer extract the watermark and spoof the to and
> from
>> address to bypass MailScanner ?
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:06:48 -0400, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com>
> wrote:
>>   
>>> Daniel Maher wrote:
>>>     
>>>>> 4 Added new feature (thanks to Matt Hampton for this) to skip the
> spam
>>>>> checks
>>>>>   on a message if it is a reply to one of your own messages. This is
>>>>> known as
>>>>>   "watermarking" a message. There are 4 new configuration settings:
>>>>>   Add Watermark = yes
>>>>>   Skip Spam Checks If Watermark Valid = yes
>>>>>   Watermark Secret = SOMETHING-SECRET!
>>>>>   Watermark Lifetime = 2419200 # = 4 weeks
>>>>>         
>>>> Does this result in the addition of a header or something?  Is there
>>>>       
>>> detailed technical documentation available for this new feature?
>>>     
>>> The big question is the LifeTime. Is MailScanner caching the watermark?
>>> IF so can that cache be shared? We have multiple incoming MS servers,
>>> and multiple outgoing SMTP servers.
>>>
>>> If possible I am sure we can Ruby something up to add the watermark on
>>> the outbound servers and pass that information to the MXs.
>>>
>>> DAve
>>>
>>>     
>>>> --
>>>>   _
>>>>  °v°  Daniel Maher
>>>> /(_)\ Administrateur Système Unix
>>>>  ^ ^  Unix System Administrator
>>>>
>>>> "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
>>>>       
>>> comprehensible." -- Albert Einstein.
>>>
>>>
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>>> Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a
>>> logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos
>>> for other non-international holidays, but nothing for
>>> Veterans?
>>>
>>> Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.
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