Hi -
I recently subscribed to this ML, although reading it quite some time
at Usenet. The background for this mail has its origin in a thread in
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, see [1].
I'm receiving my mail via UUCP, thus '/bin/rmail' will be called by
'/usr/local/libexec/uucp/uuxqt', and I'm receiving a lot of spam from
dumb spammers using guessed email addresses with leading '-' like
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. (If I'm not mistaken, then localparts with
leading dashes are valid ones.)
This will result in an uuxqt call ...
/bin/rmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... with an UUCP error, which is absolutely correct, because rmail
doesn't know of any parameter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
Workaround is a wrapper script calling 'rmail -- $*'.
This has been considered a security issue in [1], and the recommendation
was fixing uuxqt to call 'rmail --', instead.
Although I volunteered to fix it myself, I have to admit that this would
be far beyond my abilities. UUCP looks a rather complicated system to
me. I could't find the call to rmail in uuxqt's sourcecode.
But, I realized that a so-called 'execute file' is used to tell uuxqt
what to do. I tried to modify an example file in a way that rmail might
have been called the way I need:
'execute file' example:
U mail somename
F D.somenameC4X7W
I D.somenameC4X7W
R [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C rmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Z
I tried to modify it to ...
C rmail -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C rmail '-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
C rmail "-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
... without success:
ERROR: Execution: Exit status 64
Well, but ...
C rmail '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
... worked. uux is generating those 'execute files', but now I'm stuck.
I can't find where I could patch the sourcecode. And, more importantly,
I can't oversee what will break if I could fix it the way I want ... :-(
Anyone out there who could help me? This is oooold software, I know ;-)
This is all on 6.3-RELEASE, but I'm quite sure its the same with 7.x and
8.x.
Regards,
Michael
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/msg/b653a6cbf387f971
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