Dinesh Joshi wrote:
I know technology can't solve all user incompetence but can't mailman just obfuscate mail addresses in quotes? I've been harping over this for a long time. Each time I tell people to configure their MUA not to quote my / anybody's email address but it'll be much easier if mailman can screen the messages for email addresses in quotes and remove / edit them out?
If you use 'Eremove', you can wipe out spam from your inbox before its downloaded. However I haven't tried it in gmail's SSL POP access. I use yahoo and all spam is directed to the 'BULK' folder and I selected the option in yahoo to download these too in POP access as some good mail gets transferred there. Once I find no useful message in the Bulk subject lines, I simply delete them.
To the list ! I don't know much about mailman and how it has to handle various mail formats as Anurag pointed out. However I notice that mailman finally posts messages as html web pages. So is it possible that this _webpage_ is passed through a text filter that simply removes everything immediately after the @ sign anywhere in the text? This will still allow users to post useful URLs.