Re: [exim] from waht planet is coming this spam?

Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2008 10:14:21 +0100 From: Serena Boykin
> <lxx@???> To: *****@dicea.unifi.it Subject: [koi8-r]
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>
> Where in the universe today is 14 jan 2008, tuesday ???
>

'... apple.com' - who have always marched to the beat of a different
drummer, and you need to even ask?

;-)


> Why did accept such message ?
>
> -- Leonardo Boselli
>
>

Why would it not?

Absent one or more of:

- a filter or SA rule w/r 'date in future' or some such, (neither is in
default setup, and we don't know your config)

- an acl checking headers for format/RFC-compliance to a degree of
detail I don't think Exim makes w/r dates [1], (also not in the default).

Bill

[1] Based on passing traffic from other MTA or MUA with 'real, but
woefully not-now dates (Jan 1 1970) - I don't *think* that date/time are
actually checked for 'sanity' even so.

AFAIK, the check when used at all is only for presence/absence of a
date, in the correct place and in 'a' correct format.

But I have not looked at that code. And I am wrong as often as the
myriad of humankind's many, many calendars... Check France last decade
of the 1700's and what crawled in along with the metric system.