Re: [off topic] Mail with no destination?
But Art, what I am talking about is a message with _NO_ headers
even so much as hinting at the _destination_ for the message.
Fetchmail, errored out (rightfully so as far as I am concerned)
because is was presented with a message that had no destination!
I say 'rightfully so' since it is pretty obvious that fetchmail
"knows" that exim has no way to determine what to do with the
message.
Actually, I think that fetchmail errored out because there was no
valid from:, sender, reply to:, etc. headers. I am assuming here
that fetchmail actually was 'not concerned' that there was no
addressee of any sort but instead was concerned that there was
no way to 'bounce' this particular message so it just plain
refused to accept it (effectively blocking my ability to retrieve
mail from the ISP).
I have not yet received any (meaningful) response from my ISP but
I really do want to know how a message that has no destination
headers of any sort could possibly have ended up in my mail
account!
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 01:54:59PM -0500, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
> Bill said:
> > I am assuming that there must still be enough 'broken' mail
> > servers "out there" that it is still possible to move mail that
> > is not RFC compliant but I am totally mystified as to how a
> > message that has no destination can be forwarded by any mail
> > server!?
> >
> > Has anyone else seen anything like this (ie: No destination
> > header at all)?
>
> I received a spam ad that bragged about the same thing
> you saw, but there _was_ a source IP address. It would be
> fun to have a script to automate the process of tracing,
> WAIS-ing and bouncing such mail.
>
> ...remember the time someone on the list sent us a
> mail that was *to our domain root and from our domain root*
> (back around Feb or Mar when we were tangling with smail
> "From" headers)? Now that was a class act! ;-)
>
> Art
>
> >
> > --
> > best,
> > -bill
> > bleach@BellSouth.net
> > b.leach@usa.net LinuxPC@Hotmail.com
> > from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign:
> > "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!"
> > See! They do get some things right!
> >
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best,
-bill
bleach@BellSouth.net
b.leach@usa.net LinuxPC@Hotmail.com
from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign:
"The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!"
See! They do get some things right!
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