Bummer, kmail has a bug. Pasting the name in caused a new-line in the subject which made half the header into message body...
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:23, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > domain is run by morons > Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 02:23:22 +1100 > User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status: RO > X-Status: Q > X-KMail-EncryptionState: > X-KMail-SignatureState: > > They have a filter that stops naughty language. Their filter replies to > the apparent sender of all messages (including mailing list messages). > They have an address for discussion of the filter but it applies the same > filter (so if you forward their complaint message to discuss why it should > not be blocked then you get even more of their messages). > > If you CC multiple addresses in their domain then you get multiple > responses. > > Here are some ways that txucom.com can be abused: > Send a number of messages appearing to come from someone you don't like > that are CC'd to many addresses at txycom.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] are two that I know of). The number of messages sent > to the person you don't like will be N*M (where N is the number of messages > and M is the number of names on the CC list). > > The "Wall Alarm" program that they use contains a paragraph of text which > contains the "naughty" word. So a three line message about p**** > enlargement with the P word in the middle line can be transmitted in the > bounce message, thus getting around some spam filters (in effect an > open-relay). > > There are probably ways of making the "Wall Alarm" program reply to it's > own messages and kill itself, but I didn't bother figuring it out. > > > This "Wall Alarm" program is evil and should not be allowed on the > Internet. I recommend that everyone configure their mail server to reject > messages who's header match the regex "^Subject: Wall Alarm", in Postfix > you can do this by adding the following line to /etc/postfix/reject: > /^Subject: Wall Alarm/i REJECT > > You also need the following in main.cf: > header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/reject > > > PS I would appreciate it if the person from txucom.com would use > hotmail.com to read this mailing list. > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
