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Title:
Improve/customize the messages added to emails by the spam filter
Area:
email, spam
Summary:
Currently, when Dreamwidth's spam filter flags a message that may or may not be spam, it forwards the message to the intended recipient and adds a paragraph to the beginning of the message explaining what happened. This message doesn't have the same feel as most other official/official-ish communication from Dreamwidth, so I'm suggesting it should be updated.
Description:
When email gets sent to a paid/seed user's @dreamwidth.org email address, it gets run through a program to weed out spam. Messages that are borderline - maybe spam, maybe not - are sent on to the user with some extra text prepended to the email explaining what happened. Right now, it looks like this:
<i>Spam detection software, running on the system "sb-lb02.dreamwidth.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details.</i>
...which I'm pretty sure is the standard boilerplate that comes with the program. I'd like to see the message customized to be less impersonal/more user-friendly and to make it more obvious that even if the original email is spam, this message is legitimately from Dreamwidth.
Something else that may make it more obvious what these emails actually are would be to change the from and/or the subject of the email to reflect that it's a message from DW's spam filter rather than a message directly from the original sender, but I'm less sure of the etiquette involved there and of whether it would be feasible.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
13 (46.4%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (10.7%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (7.1%)
(I have no opinion)
10 (35.7%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)