public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Message-ID should surely not be shown as a mailto: URL
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:55:04 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:30:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Hm, I wonder if sloppiness of this sort accounts for the remarkable
> prevalence in my mail logs of spam-sign like this:
> 
> Jun  9 00:44:06 sss2 sm-mta[4062]: m594i5Ns004062: <[email protected]>... User unknown

Good bet.

> I don't pretend to know what is the approved way to deal with these
> issues, but *this* can't be best practice.

Obviously, someone is looking for something that _looks_ like a mail
address, attempting to munge it, and on the way through, changing it
to a mailto: link.  I think some parsing of the RFC2821/2822 headers
is needed first, so that one doesn't do this for things like the
message id.   

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
[email protected]
+1 503 667 4564 x104
http://www.commandprompt.com/

view thread (8+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Message-ID should surely not be shown as a mailto: URL
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox