[Mimedefang] Scary... Filtering on the outbound.

Jan Pieter Cornet johnpc at xs4all.nl
Fri Feb 18 08:07:35 EST 2005


On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:24:45AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> > Are you looking at the number of recipient addresses or the number
> > of messages for this test?  Or does the current crop of spam-worms
> > generally send a message per recipient?
> 
> Interesting point!  I bet ISPs lower MaxRecipientsPerMessage to something
> like 10 or so...

Hah! We (xs4all, ISP) just lowered MaxRecipientsPerMessage to 100, and
we had all sorts of customers complaining that their outlook would no
longer process their homegrown "mailinglists" in the Bcc field.

Which is a feature, of course, but the customers sometimes have trouble
seeing that :)

-- 
#!perl -wpl # mmfppfmpmmpp mmpffm <pmmppfmfpppppfmmmf at fpffmm4mmmpmfpmf.ppppmf>
$p=3-2*/[^\W\dmpf_]/i;s.[a-z]{$p}.vec($f=join('',$p-1?chr(sub{$_[0]*9+$_[1]*3+
$_[2]}->(map{/p|f/i+/f/i}split//,$&)+97):qw(m p f)[map{((ord$&)%32-1)/$_%3}(9,
3,1)]),5,1)='`'lt$&;$f.eig;                                # Jan-Pieter Cornet



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