It sounds like an issue w/ kmail/vim and not so much a nefarious
spammer ability.

And I'm not sure what you mean by "unlisted header".  If you mean:

[other headers]
To:
unlisted header

Then the answer is "unlisted header" is actually the first line of the body.


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote:
> I've had zip luck getting a trigger line based on Undisclosed Recipients:, or
> Unlisted Recipients: here, so I called up my .procmailrc and tried to enter
> the check phrase by doing a copy/paste from the kmail displayed line when in
> show all headers mode.  But, when pasting that into vim, there is an
> invisible linefeed occupying the underscores place in the header line, and it
> doesn't show up in the show all headers display.
>
> The input line looks like this:
>
> To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@gmail-pop.l.google.com
>
> But copy/pastes as:
> To: _
> unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@gmail-pop.l.google.com
>
> Where the underscore is the hidden line feed.  I save the message, and
> inspected it with khexedit, but the saved version does not have an 0x0a
> there.
>
> Anybody got an idea how the spammers have managed that?
>
> And better yet, how to defend against it as I'd like to /dev/null any message
> with an unlisted header.

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