The other admin here set up a filter to look for <*[20 with no close carrot, and so far the filter has caught around 8 messages since last night. All the messages we have traced back to the same DSL connection in Brazil. I suspect there is a spammer down there with his mail server set incorrectly to hide his server and sending out this crap.
He already had filters set up to find messages with attached .exe messages, and it error 500's them. He just added this line to the filter, and so far, so good. We'll see if this is a permanent fix. Thanks for your help! Erich -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Courier Subject: Re: [courier-users] Admin newbie question [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a reoccurring issue with our user community, and I'll bet pot > brownies to poundcake that this is a common issue with a common fix. ... > On a regular basis, a message gets stuck > in the POP queue when downloading new mail. > > I'll be that this is because if an error in M$'s error handling in Outlook, > OE for Wintendos and Macs, and Entourage for Mac the common thread being M$. If you can, get a hold of one of those troublesome messages and examine it using 'od -c'. Courier's POP server prints a '\r' character before every '\n' character. If your MTA stores messages with CRLF line ends, then Courier's POP server will send CRCRLF to the clients. MS clients don't seem to like that much. You need to configure your MTA to normalize messages, so that they are stored with just LF line ends. I haven't heard how you'd do this with Postfix. One option would be to migrate to Courier's MTA. You might be able to just use maildrop as the MDA, but I'm not sure if it normalizes the line ends... Perhaps Sam can clarify that. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
