Re: Why do I get mail for root of sunbird.aimcomm.com?
Quoting Andreas Goesele (Goesele@hfph.mwn.de):
> OK, I kind of understand, why I got this one: It came over the
> list. But I got a bunch of messages to root (and some privileged user)
> of sunbird.aimcomm.com which did not come over the list. How is this
> possible?
Because the body of the (single) email looks like this:
Unusual System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected
Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running
Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd[19110]: call connected
Feb 1 04:58:15 sunbird uservd/check[19109]: uservd[535] is running
From root Fri Feb 1 06:14:01 2002 <----------------------
Received: (from root@localhost)
by .aimcomm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id GAA19224
for root; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:02:03 -0800
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:02:03 -0800
From: root <root>
etc. etc.
where I put spaces to prevent your email client from splitting
this quotation at the <----- line. AIUI something somewhere should
have put a > in front of that "From".
Cheers,
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