Broken messge id cause spam to be ignored?

David Höhn dh at UPTIME.AT
Mon Mar 1 06:56:29 GMT 2004


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Iain McWilliams wrote:

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| HI,
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| Running Mailscanner with Postfix and spamassassin, everything working
| well but some spam appears to be slipping through the net. The strange
| thing is they all have the same broken message id. Could the spammers
| have found a loophole?
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Just on a sidenote, but why does your MTA accept messages that have an
obviously broken Message-ID ?
Or is that not so obvious?

- -d


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