Thanks for the replys,

Bill is it because the from info is enclosed in  "" and <> that it then just
see's the [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Who/How would I go about reporting this bug, feature or does sendmail folks
know this is a problem?

john

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of East, Bill
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:38 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Help with Smtp Header Spoofing

Replying to both of youse...

/I/ think that the spammer got the envelope From: section right (in other
words, the SMTP conversation was
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

My reason for saying this is the "envelope-sender" message in the headers.

However he somehow, in a way I can't quite reproduce, messed up the body
portion in a way that caused the MTA to think it should append the local
hostname. I can talk to my sendmail box and have it change "Billy" to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" even if it accepted a From:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the SMTP conversation. So the spammer intended
the From to look like "Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" but wound up with the
first MTA's hostname appended to it.

Make sense?

--
be - MOS

JAPAN is a WONDERFUL planet -- I wonder if we'll ever reach their level of
COMPARATIVE SHOPPING ...
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed 
> Crowley [MVP]
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:53 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Help with Smtp Header Spoofing
> 
> Why do you think it wasn't put there by the sender?
> 
> Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
> Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> John Strongosky
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 3:00 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Help with Smtp Header Spoofing
> 
> Bill, thanks for the reply. I've trained my boss's to look at the spam 
> % and find why a piece of email was quarantined or not. What they want 
> to know is, Why did the our domain get added to the from line, even 
> though it has the Verizon domain in the from line. With our domain 
> there it makes it look like it came from us. Is there any fix for this 
> misformatted from line that you know of?
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> East, Bill
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:35 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Help with Smtp Header Spoofing
> 
> So what is it that your bosses want to know? Why it wasn't flagged as 
> spam?
> It almost was, it looks like SpamAssassin flagged it for a couple 
> things and assigned it a likelihood of 13%. But the spammers, I've 
> heard, run their messages through SA before sending them and strip out 
> as much as possible that would trigger it.
> 
> The From address is just goofy, it looks like one of your mail systems 
> saw that it wasn't really valid and tried to fix it by adding your 
> domain after it.
> 
> But it mostly just looks like collateral damage from the spam wars.
> --
> be - MOS
> 
> If you can't write it right, you can't think it right.
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of John
> > Strongosky
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:12 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: Help with Smtp Header Spoofing
> > 
> > Hey Everyone,
> > 
> >   Several of my boss's have received a similar emails as
> the one below
> > and now they want to know how it got thru our smtp
> gateways. Our smtp
> > gateways are running BSD unix and sendmail. I believe it
> has something
> > got do with the way the "From" address was formatted but I
> don't know
> > what this type of spoofing is called so I don't know where
> to start to
> > find out how to stop it...
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> > 
> > v/r
> > john
> > 
> > Received: from smtp2.sdccd.cc.ca.us ([XX.X.XXX.XX]) by 
> > XXXXXX.sdccd.cc.ca.us with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail 
> > Service Version 5.5.2655.55)
> >     id C7ZCQ6FA; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:08:10 -0800
> > Received: from verizon.net (bzq-88-154-142-128.red.bezeqint.net
> > [88.154.142.128])
> >     by smtp2.sdccd.cc.ca.us (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id
> > k1D77wwx028734
> >     for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 12 Feb 2006
> > 23:08:05 -0800 (PST)
> >     (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: "Steven"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"@smtp2.sdccd.cc.ca.us
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Mexican Pharmacy
> > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:08:01 -0500
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > X-SDCCD-SPAM: Report=DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12 1.3, __CT 0,
> __CT_TEXT_PLAIN
> > 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0
> > X-SDCCD-SPAM: Gauge=XIII
> > X-SDCCD-SPAM: Probability=13%
> >  
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