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Re: empty message id

1998-01-13 12:14:01
Checking for no Message-Id at all is futile if your site uses
Sendmail, because (stock) Sendmail will always add a Message-Id if one
is missing. Other MTA:s (among them Qmail, I hear) act more sensibly,
and leave the headers alone on incoming mail.

I suppose one could check and see if the Message-Id was created at
the local site, then compare the From_ address with a set of known
domains.  This could stand some cleaning up, but it's kind of 
spontaneous:

   FROM=`formail -xFrom: | fgrep -i -f /etc/mail/FromOK`
   :0 c:
   * ^Message-Id:.*domain\.com>$
   * ^From [^(_at_)]+@[^ ]+
   * !FROM ?? .
   /scratch/spam

   pull out From: header, check against file of ok domains
   check if your domain name is in the Message-Id:
   make sure the address has an @ (otherwise could be local)
   did our earlier check agains valid domains fail?  If so,

   IT MIGHT BE SPAM.

 Paparazzi of the Net: No matter what you do to protect your privacy,
   they'll hunt you down and spam you. <http://www.iki.fi/~era/spam/>

Ain't that the truth.  :(

Chris

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