I'm getting a spamassassin party here

Richard Damon Richard at Damon-Family.org
Tue Jun 26 07:44:17 EDT 2018


On 6/26/18 2:50 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 24Jun2018 17:03, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>> Greetings list;
>>
>> Generally spamassassin only gets picky about this occasionally, but for
>> the past several hours its working overtime on python list messages,
>> with the major problem being the servers time stamp, a day or more in
>> the past. Anyboy ever hear of ntpd?
>> -- Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Could you eyeball some of these problematic messages please?
>
> I've been noticing a swathe of messages in the past few days with
> From: headers like this:
>
>  From: "Steven D'Aprano" <steven.d'aprano at 1:261/38.remove-ij1-this>
>
> where the From: has been badly mangled, I think by a usenet->list
> gateway. The Path: on these messages looks like this (give or take):
>
>  Path:
> uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!news.bbs.nz!.POSTED.184-155-113-241.cpe.cableone.net!not-for-mail
>
> I'd be interested to know if there is significant overlap between my
> problematic messages and yours.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>

I am seeing similarly mangled messages, From is mangled, but the
original added to the body, References are removed (so they don't
thread), a day or two old.

It looks like it was relayed to the list by news.bbs.nz

-- 
Richard Damon




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