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From: Joseph Brennan <brennan(at)columbia.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 15:27:01 EDT

Excerpt, headers from a generated message from myspace (I have folded lines for legibility) :

Received: from vmta17.myspace.com (vmta17.myspace.com [204.16.33.80])   by cayenne.cc.columbia.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9U3N5he001961   for <xxxx@columbia.edu>; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from els2mwebnet1425 (10.44.128.43) by vmta17.myspace.com   (PowerMTA(TM) v3.2r17) id h4qhps0f2do3 for <xxxx@columbia.edu>;   Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:23:05 -0700 (envelope-from
<04.15.0.64763231393140636F6C756D6269612E656475@message.myspace.com>)
mime-version: 1.0
from: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?MySpace Admin?="
<04.15.0.64763231393140636F6C756D6269612E656475@message.myspace.com>
to: xxxx@columbia.edu
reply-to: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?MySpace Admin?="
<04.15.0.64763231393140636F6C756D6269612E656475@message.myspace.com>
date: 29 Oct 2007 20:23:04 -0700
subject: MySpace account cancellation request - please confirm content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
content-transfer-encoding: base64

Notice the all-lower-case field names, which do not conform to the RFC 2822 field names that they almost match. That is, a "from:" header is not the same as a "From:" header!

It looks like the FROM ends up undefined in Spamassasssin, and so this cannot be whitelisted. I'm not necessarily saying Spamassassin is wrong either. Any opinions?

I sent mail to postmaster@myspace.com this morning. It would be nice if they change this.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University IT Received on Tue Oct 30 15:27:56 2007

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