[ale] Kmail and Spam

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Nov 1 18:13:08 EST 2005


More likely a new bug is out with a badly written  mailer or a mailer
designed to exploit a specific email client weakness (think Outlook
family).

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:08 -0400, Christopher Ness wrote:
> I know I should just be thankful that Linux is immune to this crap, but I 
> can't help wondering what I am being bombarded with.
> 
> Lately I have been getting a half dozen or more messages a day that kmail 
> simply barfs on, and puts in the inbox as "No Subject" and the sender as 
> "Unknown". Viewing the message source gives me a clue - 
> "X-Comment: Sending client does not conform to RFC822 minimum requirements
> X-Comment: Date has been added by Maillennium".
> 
> Some kind of Spam or Worm is trying to get me. But beyond that...
> Anybody know what is going on?
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