On Wed, 15 May 2002, Phil Pennock stipulated:
> On 2002-05-15 at 09:29 +0100, Sean Rima 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.
>
> -----------------------------< cut here
> >------------------------------- 5.3 Command line options
>
> The command options are described in alphabetical order below.
>
> -- This is a pseudo-option whose only purpose is to terminate the
> options and therefore to cause subsequent command line items to
> be treated as arguments rather than options, even if they begin
> with hyphens. -----------------------------< cut here
> >-------------------------------
>
> Exactly the same as most other modern Unix software.
Opps, forgot that, Must let the author of tmda and a couple of others
know to use that. Bit of asn old security risk.
See Ya, Sean
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