On Monday 20 October 2003 11:52 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Thank you, that appears to have done the trick. > > I was getting filled up with a new spam, producing the same type of > message, but adding that line to fetchmailrc did the trick. It is gone. > > I was getting quite angry and frustrated with this nonsense. > > Until a few days ago, I didn't receive any sort of message like this. Spam > came in and was dumped into /dev/null via spamd and procmail. Nothing was > getting through. These messages weren't getting through, per se, but they > were certainly causing just as much problems as normal spam by filling my > box with error messages. What's up with the misconfigured messages all of > a sudden? Why wouldn't I have run into this before now? Is something new > going on (the originating IP was completely different, as was the Subject, > than the previous viagra garbage)
Well, again just a guess, but a little while ago, you were complaining about the amount of time that it was taking to route mail from Kmail through SA for filtering and I (perhaps others) suggested that you use Postfix and procmail instead so that you could process in the background. Postfix is the culprit here since Postfix is denying delivery of improperly formatted and addressed messages. Personally, I think that this is a good thing, although you can configure Postfix to not check and just deliver messages regardless of formatting. My guess would be that Kmail or whatever other client you were using does not check format or syntax but just makes a "best guess" as to the recipient based upon whatever info is there. Because there is no validation, there was no error and therefore all messages were delivered. Personally, I think that you are in better shape now, improperly formatted messages are almost always going to be generated by crappy spamware rather than real mail clients and servers, so deleting them sight unseen is in your best interest given that you are filtering. As to why it took several days, only the crappiest spamware and dumbest spammers generate such messages since ISP's often bounce them themselves so you may have just not run into any of them in that time. My own versions were rare as well, I got perhaps 2 such improper messages per month. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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