John, For those of us new to mail header issues, could you describe how this works as a spammer's ploy.
Doug Daulton Email Systems Manager Email Marketing | Graphic Arts MGM MIRAGE Advertising, Inc. www.mgmmirage.com -----Original Message----- From: John Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:25 PM To: SpamAssassin list Subject: spammer headers: X-Mailer The email sanitizer truncates long subject lines to prevent buffer overflows. Yawn. The interesting part for SA is the contents of the X-Mailer header and the header immediately following it. Are the spammers getting a bit free with their %RANDOM% tags, perhaps? :) On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:08, Procmail Security daemon wrote: > Trapped excessively long header: > Subject: We Do The Talking For You chicago eire capacitive foray piddle nero embryology djakarta precept wingmen intellectual cackle brenner elucidate consul horseback fiche approximant anatomy gamble dowitcher successor associable cochlea libretto landmark thymus claustrophobic decolonize > > STATUS: Header truncated. > > Headers from message: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 11 12:08:19 2004 > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Received: from 207.14.61.33 ([200.247.68.245]) > > by {REMOVED}.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) with SMTP id i7BJ8CE30042 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:08:14 -0700 > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Peggy King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Old-Subject: We Do The Talking For You chicago eire capacitive foray piddle nero embryology djakarta precept wingmen intellectual cackle brenner elucidate consul horseback fiche approximant anatomy gamble dowitcher successor associable cochlea libretto landmark thymus claustrophobic decolonize > > Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:13:53 -0300 > > X-Mailer: moo airlift > > eater-carabao: agee delusive tid > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > > boundary="--17427823107227209060" > > Subject: We Do The Talking For You chicago eire capacitive foray piddle nero embryology djakarta precept wingmen intellectual cackle brenner elucidate consul horseback fiche approximant anatomy gamble d -- John Hardin KA7OHZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Internal Systems Administrator voice: (425) 672-1304 Apropos Retail Management Systems, Inc. fax: (425) 672-0192 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If you smash a computer to bits with a mallet, that appears to count as encryption in the state of Nevada. - CRYPTO-GRAM 12/2001 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
