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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: X-UIDL and X-PMFLAGS
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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 13:46:19 -0800 (PST)
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are these two mail headers anything other than spam indicators?
(X-UIDL and X-PMFLAGS).

nearly every peice of mail that has one or the other header
is either spam or looping.

examples:

>From owner-majordomo  Thu Nov  6 22:29:13 1997
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          (envelope-from selmark@usa.net)
From: selmark@usa.net
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To: hackers@freebsd.org
Message-ID: < >
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 97 10:36:56 EST
Subject: Hello
Reply-To: selmark@usa.net
X-PMFLAGS:
X-UIDL:  c25633033561c9cb0b84f22ed949d8ab
Comments: Authenticated sender is <selmark@usa.net>

Want your Web Site submitted to over 250 search engines?





>From owner-freebsd-announce  Thu Nov  6 10:37:56 1997
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Message-Id: <199711041951.UAA02408@gvr.gvr.org>
From: FreeBSD Security Officer <security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:01:00 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG
X-ML-maintainer: owner-announce-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org
Precedence: list
X-Distribute: distribute [version 2.1 (Alpha) patchlevel=20]
X-Sequence: announce-jp 75
Subject: ANNOUNCE: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-97:05.open
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X-UIDL: ea3fbe2f6c65e254e9d1482f6b354a18
Status: U

jmb


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