Oh, and having a sample mail via pastebin/etc would be handy if you
want more commentary about the mail. :)


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Theo Van Dinter <felic...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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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