The email package and KLEZ mails

Tue May 28 04:31:26 EDT 2002

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:21:56AM +0000, Gerson Kurz wrote:
> I'm using the email module (new in Python 2.2) to analyze messages for
> spam and HTML content. However, I get exceptions when analyzing KLEZ
> generated mails, which is disappointing since I'm trying to filter
> them in the first place. 

   Klez is a carefully created virus. It sends mail that specifically
targets Outofluck holes. Those mail messages are constracted in violation
of RFCs, so you really cannot parse them with RFC-compliant tools :)

Oleg.
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