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Re^2: Junk email relayed via procmail list ?

1997-08-25 15:13:53
R Lindberg & E Winnie <rlindber(_at_)kendaco(_dot_)telebyte(_dot_)com> wrote:

R> On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Jeffrey L. Nauss wrote:
R> 
R> > > >X-UIDL: f2aa304aecd64edd84e682586e28b948
R> > >
R> > > The mere presence of this header causes the message to be ditched on my
R> > > system.
R> > 
R> > What is this header?  I am completely unfamiliar with it.  When does it
R> > appear in mail headers?
R> 
R>   While a great many UCE/UBE SPAM emails do use this header caution should
R> be urged when setting global kills based on it, it does have a few legit
R> users (certain moderated lists) and killing on it alone could cause you
R> too lose cleint's email
R> 
R>   Of course if you don't get any, go for it. I kill about 60% of the SPAM
R> using this header.

Whmmmmmm. Interesting.
Actually, I have never seen emails _without_ X-UIDL header
among those received thru POP client including this procmai list.
I thought it was just a plain header created by POP server 
for unknown reason.

_/_/_/      Mitsuru FURUKAWA      _/_/_/
_/_/_/        Tokyo, Japan        _/_/_/
_/_/_/     mailto:furu(_at_)009(_dot_)com    _/_/_/
_/_/_/  http://www.009.com/furu/  _/_/_/

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