On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:01:01 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:43, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:52:51 -0500 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [ i got 3 of these strange messages today re items i sent to > > > Gentoo-User. NB the comment "misconfigured sender" on the 5th > > > "Received" line. it is possible i forgot to suppress my 'Reply-to' > > > header, if that helps. does anyone have any explanation for this? > > > 'Lincolnbaxter' is unknown to me ] > > > > And again. Same user was bombing posters to the list with CRAP > > requests back in mid september. I guess that sending unsolicited > > email to list posters once just wasn't enough. Mr Baxter needed a > > second go. > > Is that the AWAY guy? Damn! This is the guy who implemented Challenge Response Authentication Protocol on the address he subscribed to the list, thereby sending a confirmation request to everyone who posted to the list. <rant> In case anybody else out there needs the hint, any software which automatically sends out any email based upon the addresses in the envelope or headers of incoming email is going to cause a problem sooner or later by sending mail somewhere it shouldn't. This looks like a dodgy implementation of spamassassin, which shouldn't be a problem for anyone except Mr Baxter himself, except for the MTA decided to play spam-the-world with the error message. </rant> I feel much better now i got that out of my system :) -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens Save the whales, http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl collect the whole set! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
