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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:12:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Cc:        imp@harmony.village.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New Attack via sendmail?
Message-ID:  <199906172012.NAA04057@usr07.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpaeu0eg4p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jun 16, 99 09:52:54 am

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> [from -security]
> 
> Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> 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
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