From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 17 13:13: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD5115540 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27247; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:12:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd027210; Thu Jun 17 13:12:45 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04057; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:12:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199906172012.NAA04057@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: New Attack via sendmail? To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:12:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jun 16, 99 09:52:54 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [from -security] > > Warner Losh writes: > > True. It looked from the logs like it was happening often, so looking > > at the server in a most-mortum fassion may also be a benefit. > ------------------- > Don't type with food in your mouth! :) There is a (semi) well known sendmail bug having to do with malformed messages, usually from Microsoft Outlook clients. It results in the message being repeatedly sent to the recipient list, and never deleted from the queue. Is this what they were talking about? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message