Re: [exim] [exam] AOL Scamp issue

On 10/17/2012 7:21 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 10:03 -0400, SonicFog wrote:
>> When AOL sends the scamp message there is only one way of determining
>> original AOL email address. The only clue in AOL scamp email is the
>> 'message-id' identifier. Do a search of your exim_mainlog for the
>> identifier and you will find the email address the message was sent to.
>>
>> If the email was sent to multiply AOL recipients on a single message then
>> you won't be able to determine exactly which one hit the spam button and AOL
>> isn't going to tell you either.
> That's not quite true.
>
> It is possible (but not very efficient) to limit all outbound email to
> AOL to a single recipient per connection using appropriate transport
> options (clue: max_rcpt and remote_max_parallel), and add a header in
> the transport which is a hash function of the recipient address.
>
> AOL would then pass that back to you, and you can look it up.
>
> This is a truly horribly inefficient mode of operation, but if
> auto-handling Scomp reports is that important then it might help.
>
> Graeme
>

I was thinking more like encoding the user in a header, maybe as simple
as reversing the string since AOL does return the headers. Is there an
easy way to flip a string in Exim?