On 31 Mar 2004, at 20:24, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

Without the full e-mail, including the routing headers, we can't tell from
where it is coming. Most likely some DHCP pool that has been turned into a
nest of spambots.

I know that, it's just weird that this passed thru since I don't think "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is subscribed to this mail list.

http://cr.yp.to/immhf/envelope.html


Qmail (and consequently ezmlm-issubn which is invoked by Qmail/ezmlm and driven by environment variables) uses the envelope sender to set the SENDER environment variable - instead of what is written in the From header.

Most probably, the envelope sender of said message was a valid, but forged list subscriber address, i.e. Andrew's email address. The From header could then contain whatever one would like (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]), it is ignored by Qmail anyhow. I can't check to be sure, since my spam filter nuked the message already. :-)

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