Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:18:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Joe Mays <jfmays@launchpad.win.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam blocking in sendmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319151636.1739C-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <3511A033.6A780275@launchpad.win.net>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Joe Mays wrote: > On a related note: I just ran into an issue today with > spammers that leads me to a sendmail.cf question. > > Someone out there is generating spam mail (we've encountered > it from more than one domain) that has a blank X-UIDL: > header. This is a real problem for MS Outlook and Outlook > express. When they attempt to download messages from the > pop server which contain this header they hang and give a > pop-server timeout. Netscape has no problem downloading > them, though it may screw up the indexing in the inbox list, > not sure about that yet. I think this can be done with sendmail 8.9 beta, which claims the ability to bounce messages based on headers. Right now I'm /dev/null'ing the messages with procmail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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