[Scottish] Poisoned Spam
Is it just me? I've been responsible for the care and feeding of a lot of mailboxes. I've seen SMTP queues stalled, and lots of messages bounced due to bad formatting. But until this week I never had trouble getting mail out of a POP3 mailbox. In the last week, I've had _three_ mailboxes across two servers getting clogged with spam messages which won't download through POP3 because of problems with the headers. It seems a little strange (and far to quiet on this list!) Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Poisoned Spam
I've seen this happen twice in the past 4 months. Don't know if it's anything to worry about, but I just put it down to random errors (2 out of ~7000 isn't too significant :-p ) I'll keep an eye out for it to see if it happens again, and I'll grab a copy if it does. Regards Kyle On Tuesday 15 July 2003 21:31, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Is it just me? > > I've been responsible for the care and feeding of a lot of mailboxes. I've > seen SMTP queues stalled, and lots of messages bounced due to bad > formatting. But until this week I never had trouble getting mail out of a > POP3 mailbox. In the last week, I've had _three_ mailboxes across two > servers getting clogged with spam messages which won't download through > POP3 because of problems with the headers. > > It seems a little strange (and far to quiet on this list!) > > Colin > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Poisoned Spam
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 21:31, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Is it just me? _Possibly_ not > > I've been responsible for the care and feeding of a lot of mailboxes. I've > seen SMTP queues stalled, and lots of messages bounced due to bad > formatting. But until this week I never had trouble getting mail out of a > POP3 mailbox. In the last week, I've had _three_ mailboxes across two > servers getting clogged with spam messages which won't download through > POP3 because of problems with the headers.help > We have one user who cannot post to the board, despite being resubscribed and at present I can see no reason for this other than Mailman deciding their domain is on a spam blacklist. We are not all on broadband, so I don't want everyone to check in with a test msg, but if we could generate a bit more traffic it would help. > It seems a little strange (and far to quiet on this list!) Spooky -- or perhaps not, maybe its too hot to type Willie ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Poisoned Spam
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 00:09, Kyle Gordon wrote: > I've seen this happen twice in the past 4 months. Don't know if it's Just got another one. Grrr! A quick check on Google for "501 Bad address syntax" and the first match was routed through the same server as that below. Looking at the message, obviously the To: isn't rfc822 - but I wouldn't have expected that to make the MTA throw a huff. Colin +OK 1519 octets Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [212.50.17.232] ([166.104.43.66]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:34:10 +0100 Return-Path: Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net ([39.26.127.61]) by ssymail.ssy.co.kr with esmtp; Jul, 18 2003 07:10:57 +1100 Received: from [49.164.250.3] by rly-xw01.mx.aol.com with SMTP; Jul, 18 2003 06:31:00 +1200 Received: from unknown (156.54.224.23) by a231242.upc-a.chello.nl with local; Jul, 18 2003 05:07:59 +1200 From: Private News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bryan W. Subject: my brand new livecam is online Sender: Private News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:34:10 +0200 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
