On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, lists wrote: > > -> -----Original Message----- > -> From: Mike Burger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 6:50 AM > -> To: lists > -> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -> Subject: Re: Why is ATT.net comimg up as spam due to numeric > -> helo? And why is there no report attachment? > -> > -> > -> 1) Because real mail servers HELO with their machine name and domain. > -> > -> 2) The report is there...default configuration for SA > -> doesn't make the > -> report an attachment...it puts the report into the body, and > -> moves the > -> original body of the message into a MIME attachment (someone > -> correct me if > -> I'm wrong...I don't use the default setup, preferring to put > -> the report > -> into the headers). > -> > 99.9% of my spam email have the attached as a attachment with the report in > the body of the msg. I under stand the report but is att.net stupid when > it come to email server DNS or did my machine screw up some how. So far I > have a few example just like this one but they don't have the attached > orginal email. They get nailed due to numeric helo and there is no encoded > attachment to view the msg in outlook xp but if view the email in vi I do > see where that attachment is suppost to be yet it's not viewable in Outlook > Xp. > > So the two questions are is ATT.net really this screwy? > Why is there no attachment when 99.9% of my other spam does have > attachments.
Well, I can only really answer the first...yes...ATT.net's admins screwed up, somehow, and need to fix the server in question. The DNS for the server in question is just fine, but the system, itself, should be HELO'ing with a name, not an IP. As to the second, maybe the spam was one of those (nearly) blank ones, so there wasn't really a body to attach? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe
