Re: [Exim] Clever spammer :(

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Auteur: Jochen Erwied
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Aan: exim-users-admin, Sean Rima
CC: exim-users, Sean Rima
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Clever spammer :(
Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 10:29:24 AM, you wrote:

> I use various anti spam messages but this spammer took the biscuit:
> - -oilandgasremoval@???


> Any attempt by any of my antispam software (tmda for example) which
> tries to confirm or deny the existamce of the email address fails
> because exim sees the -oiland.... as a command line option.


> So does anyone know how I would prevent these coming in.


My tip would be to check your configuration. Somewhere in there the
target EMail-address is passed as a simple argument, thus seen as
command-line option.

I just checked - seems like amavis (a mail virus scanner) hits this
problem. You have to change the amavisd (if you're using it) to
specify '--' in front of the recipients when delivering the scanned
mails.

So if another software calls exim to deliver the mails, try to add
'--' explicitely.

HTH.

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