[EXIM] blocking messages...

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Author: Bruce Bowler
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To: exim-users
Subject: [EXIM] blocking messages...
OK, now that I've gotten exim up and running and I'm happy with it, it's
time to delve a little further into its capabilities...

Today I received 2 messages with the following headers...

>Return-path: <webmaster@???>
>Envelope-to: bowler@???
>Delivery-date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:13:49 -0500
>Received: from pisces.hkstar.com (pop.hkstar.com) [202.82.7.77] 
>    by alpha1.bigelow.org with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #4)
>    id 0y2JFe-0007tp-00; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:13:44 -0500
>Received: from default (hhtun006059.netvigator.com [208.139.119.59]) by

pop.hkstar.com (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA24783; Wed, 11 Feb 1998
01:06:21 +0800 (HKT)
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 01:06:21 +0800 (HKT)
>From: webmaster@???
>X-Authentication-Warning: pisces.hkstar.com: Host

hhtun006059.netvigator.com [208.139.119.59] claimed to be default
>Received: from 4559a$s71@??? by mirabilis.com

(8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA04842 for webmaster@???; Wed, 11
February 1998 01:05:20 -0700 (EDT)
>To: webmaster@???
>Subject: Hello ICQ Users Please Support Mickey O Piracy Cd Center in Hong

Kong.
>Reply-To: webmaster@???
>X-PMFLAGS: saDFef352354352323@???
>X-UIDL: 23r90u42lk908889.c27line76.singnet.com.sg
>Comments: Authenticated Sender is <webmaster@???>
>Message-Id: <2934249_85730856>
>Status:


To my "highly trained eye", it sure looked like spam to me (call me
paranoid, but when the reply-to, to, from and return-path headers are all
the same and there's an x-authentication-warning header, bells go off. In
this case, the body of the message didn't help their cause either :-).

How do I tell exim to reject and/or freeze similarly styled messages?

Bruce Bowler, Research Associate                  207.633.9600 (voice)
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences             207.633.9641 (fax)
PO Box 475                                        BBowler@??? (email)
West Boothbay Harbor ME  04575                    http://www.bigelow.org/


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