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X-AntiAbuse:
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:10 am
by decipher
I was just wondering if anyone had any information regarding the X-AntiAbuse: headers that gmail adds to the emails that I send using swift.
I'm assuming this is a sign of spam, but why does gmail add these header but not mark the message as spam?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:59 am
by decipher
OK i have found out, after spending quite some time searching, that the X-AntiAbuse headers are added by Exim and not gmail, doh! I guess this is an anti-spam method? Really need to download FireBird...

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:35 am
by chuckl
Apologies Decipher, I meant to reply to your first post and got sidetracked.
Yes the headers are added by the originating mail server i.e. your mail server. Part of the 'security theatre' approach I think.
I've had several instances where they were badly formed, and are a major problem. Are you finding the same?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:08 am
by decipher
Hey chuckl, no worries

Thus far I have not had any issues with these additional headers, (well other than hotmail junk but I don't think these headers are the cause of that.)
I guess if anything it would be an advantage, but saying that i'm not sure if most mail servers recognize these headers.
I'm also trying to find out how to change my exim configuration settings to remove these headers to run additional tests. I'm pretty clueless and i'm finding 'nix server management quite confusing for a windows user. Soldier on, soldier on...
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:17 pm
by chuckl
The server that was giving me problems was planting them straight after a mime header.
It's a while back, but should be found in exim.conf? Otherwise invoked in a system filter call. As far as I remember, that wording is from exim itself, rather than spamassassin, SpamCop or similar.