On 2002-06-02 at 15:44 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:23:05AM +0200, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > This MTA: MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12
> > is now generating bounce messages in HTML rather than plain text.
>
> You've got to be kidding me...
No.
A customer sent 25,000 pieces of email through a smarthost. I was
looking at this, and it seems that it was a b0rked piece of spamware
which didn't notice that "accepts message" != "relays message".
I sent a test message through their MTA to check. It was accepted, the
bounce came back.
Oh, I hadn't really noticed before: my one-line "foo" test message body
silently became 14 lines of HTML body.
Obfuscated address info:
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Subject: Undeliverable: OR test
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 00:24:52 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
X-MS-Embedded-Report:
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01C20A84.506E5850"
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
------_=_NextPart_000_01C20A84.506E5850
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12">
<TITLE>Undeliverable: OR test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Your message<BR>
<BR>
To: PHILS@???<BR>
Subject: OR test<BR>
<BR>
did not reach the following recipient(s):<BR>
<BR>
PHILS@??? on Mon, 3 Jun 2002 00:24:40 +0200<BR>
The recipient name is not recognized<BR>
The MTS-ID of the original message is
: c=XX;a= ;p=XXXXXXXX it;l=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<BR>
MSEXCH:IMS:XXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXX:MAIN 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Rec
ipient<BR>
</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
------_=_NextPart_000_01C20A84.506E5850
Content-Type: message/rfc822
From: PHILS@???
To: PHILS@???
Subject: OR test
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 00:24:52 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
X-MS-Embedded-Report:
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12">
<TITLE>OR test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>foo</FONT>
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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