Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:36:15 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: Jim C <jconner@enterit.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible hack attempt? Q&A Message-ID: <20000807183614.B254@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008062309230.99813-100000@earth.wnm.net>; from alex@wnm.net on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:14:00AM -0500 References: <20000805225201.J254@parish> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008062309230.99813-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:14:00AM -0500, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:08:01PM -0400, Jim C wrote: > > > I just found a rejected message from my fetchmail daemon and > > > found it very interesting. However, since I am not an expert at > > > sendmail hacks, Im curious to see what information I might be > > > able to get from folks on this list. Here are a couple hearders > > > from the message: > > > > > > > I was going to say that it looks like what you see in the lists from > > time to time when someone posts in Japanese and you only have Latin > > charset support. Anyway, I loaded the message into emacs to type this > > reply and guess what; it all appears as Japanese (sorry, I can't tell > > you what it says :)). I never knew emacs could do this (on an English > > system), cool. > > > What I find interesting is the MIME boundary which includes the phrase "om > mani padme hum." Does fetchmail have a warped sense of humour or is > someone trying to, err, hack you with Buddhist mantras? > Yes, I found that curious as well. BTW, when I checked root's mail I found the same reject from my fetchmail daemon too. I've posted a screen grab from emacs at http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/fetchmail_reject.jpg so maybe one of our Japanese (or is it Chinese) friends could enlighten us. > > > The original message was received at Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:45:27 -0400 (EDT) > > > from root@localhost.enterit.com [127.0.0.1] > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > > <$(B%V%C%/%J%$%D!&%W%m%8%'%/%H(B> > > $(B> (B $(B----- Transcript(B $(Bof(B $(Bsession follows ----(B- > > $(B> 550 (B<$(B%V%C%/%J%$%D!&%W%m%8%'%/%H(B>$(B... Host(B $(Bunknown (Name server: (B > > $(B> (B$b$(B%v%c%/%j%$%d.uucp.: host(B $(Bnot found)(B > > $(B> 550 <FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@localhost>... User(B $(Bunknow(Bn > > $(B> (B > > $(B> </snip><snip(B $(Blist=2(B> > > $(B> (B > > $(B> From: FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@notjames.enterit.co(Bm > > $(B> To: &%W%m%8%'%/%(BH@$(B%V%C%/%J%$%D.UUC(BP > > $(B> MIME-Version: 1.(B0 > > $(B> Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;(B > > $(B> (B $(Bboundary="om-mani-padme-hum-266-1-965443527"(B > > -ac > > -- > ============================================================== > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > ============================================================== > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.440N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.0570W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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