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Re: Denial of Service by Spamware?

2000-12-28 13:20:02
Anyone who has posted to the IETF list in the last week or two has
gotten literally dozens of "out of office notification" messages from
Microsoft Exchange clients. You would think the largest application
software provider in the world would understand the difference between
envelope and message headers, but apparently not. (You would also
think that, as with many Unix based mailers, they'd understand notions
like not sending automated replies if the person isn't in the header
To: or CC: lines, but apparently that behavior is also too complicated
for them to understand.)


i'll see ya' and raise ya' o ne better.  mailing list owners get the
appended from microsft corporate.  note the lack of information on which
addressee's mail is bouncing, but it tells me to "Verify that the recipient
address is correct."

    From: "Automated Virus Gateway (do not reply)" 
<inetgw1(_at_)microsoft(_dot_)com>
    To: owner-rap(_at_)ops(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org
    Subject: Mail could not be delivered
    Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:05:35 -0800

    ****** Message from InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT ******

    The following mail could not be delivered.
    Reason:  Exceeded Maximum Delivery Attempts.  Verify that the recipient
    address is correct.

    *****************     End of message     ***************


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    Message-ID: 
<4(_dot_)3(_dot_)2(_dot_)7(_dot_)2(_dot_)20001225220830(_dot_)00d07630(_at_)csi-admin1>
    From: Ron Cohen <ronc(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
    Sender: owner-rap(_at_)ops(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org
    To: rap(_at_)ops(_dot_)ietf(_dot_)org
    Subject: RE: draft-santitoro-rap-policy-errorcodes-01.txt
    Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 22:09:13 -0800
    X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58)
    x-sender: ronc(_at_)csi-admin1

    ....

nya nya nya :-)

randy