How to Remove X-headers

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 12 17:30:32 GMT 2009



On 12/3/09 17:22, Kevin Miller wrote:
> Glenn wrote:
>    
>> Julian - Yes, I tried X-Mime.* and it does not work.
>>
>> It seems the X-header limit in Microsoft Exchange is just now
>> beginning to cause problems.  There is already a commercial fix for
>> Exchange 2007 (http://www.codeplex.com/HeaderFilterAgent), but of
>> course we are using Exchange 2003.  So you have at least one "people"
>> who could put this functionality to use, and probably others will be
>> looking for it soon. Thanks.   -Glenn.
>>      
> Hmmm.  Maybe it's a subtle way to force you to upgrade?<g>
> Jeepers, this looks like a wide open vector for a targeted DDoS attack if one wanted to take out someone's exchange server.  Scary...
>    
Maybe I should add a random-number generate into the "header" action so 
you can generate randomly-numbered headers?
That would take out an Exchange server pretty quickly :-(

Jules

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