On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Joe Laffey writes: > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > > Note that there is only the newline at the end of the Cc: recipient list > > not shown: ; line. The --- are added by me. That is the whole message. > > > > This is choking me client's pop client. > > Let me guess: Outlook?
This one is Outlook Express for the Mac OS 9. > > > This also seems to open users up to a DoS, simply send them a corrupt > > message or two and they are out of luck. This a DoS both against the user > > and the admin... > > > > Thoughts? > > ... And this will occur no matter what mail/pop3 server is used. > > Only Microsoft can fix this. So mail servers MUST accept messages with this format? (only headers and no blank lines) I can work around this by writing a script to search and destroy these messages. ISPs *can* choose and configure servers. They, sadly, *cannot* dictate which client people use. Every time I speak with a client I recommend against using Outlook (especially oon the PC, for security reasons). But none of them pay any attention. Evil as as MS is, and crappy as Outlook is, it seems to me like we as admins must do everything to support it. Manually dealing with corrupt messages is not my idea of fun! For now the script it is... -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mail here will be rejected -----> "Sigfried Trap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN developer relations Here's your chance to show off your extensive product knowledge We want to know what you know. Tell us and you have a chance to win $100 http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?HRPT1X3RYQNC5V4MLNSV3E54 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
