Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 18:21:40 -0400 From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: "Morten A. Middelthon" <morten@freenix.no>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vipul's Razor doesn't like FreeBSD's weekly run output? Message-ID: <20020518182140.B6061@trot.haven.dom> In-Reply-To: <20020419035550.GC629@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:55:50AM %2B0300 References: <20020418083415.A30442@freenix.no> <20020418140911.A17736@bps.jodocus.org> <20020418141001.F30442@freenix.no> <20020419035550.GC629@hades.hell.gr>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:55:50AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2002-04-18 08:34, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: >> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 04:16:33 +0200 (CEST) >> From: BOFH Root <root> >> To: root >> Subject: atreides weekly run output > >On 2002-04-18 14:10, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: >> Yes, that will solve the problem. But! Why does these mail trigger >> Vipul's Razor? > >The most likely reason is a ``malformed From: header''. The header >doesn't contain a domain part in the <address> of the sender, and this >is something I've seen spammers (ab)use. Does Vipul's Razor log the >rejected messages or reasons for rejecting them anywhere? You might >find hints there. > Yes that would be my guess too. malformed header. you should write the Vipul's Razor author about it. A system message shouldn't get caught unless the content is identical each time and someone reported it. I was getting occasional false positives for list postings. I wrote the author and he blacklisted the reporter. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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