[Mailman-Users] Spam got through - how?!

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri Feb 1 16:58:45 CET 2008


Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Dennis Carr wrote:
>
>>OK, so today, I get a spam on the FFML, of which I have included the
>>headers below.
>>
<snip>
>
>Your MUA has wrapped these headers almost beyond recognition, but I
>think the important one is
>
>From: <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
>
>The sender of the spam has spoofed the list address that it sent the
>mail to in the From: header.


On the other hand, it just occurred to me that perhaps this is an
anonymous list, in which case the above is not the original From:. If
this is the case, it is possible that the original From: spoofed a
list member. The original sender should be logged in mailman's 'post'
log.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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