Okay, I guess you are technically correct from the point of view of the internals of the mail system, but that seems like a really bad point of view to be approaching this from. A message such as this being sent to users should be correct from the normal point of view of the users. An appropriate wording would have been something like: "You are receiving this e-mail because you have been identified as someone who either is currently using filters on MSU's legacy e-mail service, old.mail.msu.edu, or has used filters in the past." Just a simple change like that would have prevented this entire discussion. > -----Original Message----- > Chris, > > The warning is technically *not* incorrect. We generated the > list of "mail filter users" based on the mere presence of a > .mailfilter file. If you've ever had a filter then you were > on the list. When you delete filter rules, the shell of the > rule remains. It looks like this: > > [log in to unmask] > import SENDER > if ($SENDER eq "") > { > SENDER=$FROM > } > > to "./Maildir/." > > > That tells it to "filter" every message intended for you (if > you happen to be "sparty") into your main Inbox. We cannot > open up ever single .mailfilter file for two reasons. First > and foremost, because of the AUP, but also because it would > be too daunting of a task. There are over 9,000 mailfilters > in place and there are five of us working here right now. > > Hope that helps. > ./brm > >