How to Remove X-headers
Julian Field
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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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