Nick Hill saw fit to inform LI that: >this is another one. I've never got any spam in this box, as Yahoo filters that >for me. Yahoo has _atrocious_ filters, which extensively mangle your mail. Let's go through the headers ... > >----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- > >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:36:39 +0530 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web1301.mail.yahoo.com >X-Track: 65: 40 X-Track is a header inserted by Yahoo for spam filtering >Mess51: 0��@nikhilwiz w�5ww.aunet.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by www.aunet.org (Postfix) with SMTP >Nikhil>>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this makes it look authentic. It is authentic, but wtf are those high ascii characters in the headers? 8bit is _not_ allowed in mail headers. > >x�Received: from hotmail.com (PPP-174-100.bng.vsnl.net.in [203.197.174.100]) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ b'lore? Yes. Bangalore VSNL - a legit post I think. Looks like yahoo's spamfiltering is badly broken. And yahoo's mta is broken as well, if it mixes two mails together _AND_ inserts high ASCII into headers. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com Never commit yourself! Let someone else commit you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
