[Pymilter] exploding messages

[Eric S. Johansson]

Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
> I would recommend not relying on someone elses message ID as a tag.
> Spam, for instance, often uses the same message-id for a whole run of spam,
> or has no message-id at all.

I hadn't paid attention.  Knowing what I do about spammer behavior, you 
are probably quite right.

> Instead, add your own X-Camram-Tag: header to associate scores, etc.
> (checking whether one already exists and discarding or escaping).  This 
> also solves the problem of coworkers seeing their officemates spam scores.
> 
shouldn't be a big problem.  Need to find a good source of uniqueness. 
Will probably do something like sha1 on the entire body of the message. 
  Collisions should be fairly rare.  obviously, this will be a fun thing 
to test.  ;-)

---eric


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