On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I am using exim4 and exiscan.
>
> I have seen a large increase in emails with subjects like "annoy idea
> handsome" and bodies such as "peace euphorbia lillian scout b centerline
> cleat scapular citron pacify centigrade icicle eh imperate cupid
> fireplace gentlemen cocaine". Presumably the sender is trying to
> generate a response?
>
> Many of these spam senders have the following X-Mailer listed:
> X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19
>
> Is this possible to generate an SMTP-time rejection of a message based
> on its X-Mailer? Is this sensible?
Looking through my archived mail folders, I have 16 messages from
bugtraq@???
with that signature. On a brief inspection these aren't spam.
The other 95 messages I have with that signature have been marked
as spam, either by spam-assassin or by me.
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
