Re: [Exim] mass mailer filter

On 2002-04-05 at 14:04 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Sometimes I manually save spam for research. In this spam box with over
> 1300 spams:

Of the 210 mails in my spam folder (saved for the same reasons), 85 have
an X-Mailer: header. The two most frequent are:
19 X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
10 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)

Some googling suggests that "Microsoft CDO" is "Collaboration Data
Objects" and are basically scriptable objects. There's also:
HOWTO: Send a Message Using CDO (1.x) with Visual J++ (Q216723)
in Microsoft's Knowledge Base. And yes, "Message" == "email".

Interestingly, the spams with that header _all_ use my current standard
email address; most others use some old ones, or junk ones.

I've a suspicion that someone has joined together a web-page parser with
an email object, using this CDO stuff.


So, has anyone seen that CDO header in any legitimate emails?
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