[95155] in RedHat Linux List
Re: "Sendmail Problem"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Lenk)
Thu Oct 15 15:07:09 1998
From: "Fred Lenk" <fllnx@commpower.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:10:07 -0700
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We used to have an employee who received email from a list.
One of the list participants used a mail server which
incorrectly used "rom:" instead of "From:" on the "from"
line of the header. Eventually, this message worked its way
up to the beginning of the file. So while the file had
size, the user couldn't retrieve any email - Until I
manually went in and corrected the "rom:" to "From:".
I thought that was an interesting accidental "loss of
service attack" i hadn't seen before.
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:43:26 +0200
> From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: "Sendmail Problem"
> At 13:05 1998-10-15 +0530, Vineeta wrote:
> > I have been coming across this problem a bit too frequently:
> >My /var/spool/mail/username shows mail for me but when i try to download the
> >mails ,it says "no new messages on the server".
>
> That's because the messages have been marked read by the POP3 server.
> Depending on your mail client software, you may be able to force it to
> download previously read messages.
>
> Tony
> --
> Anthony E. Greene <agreene@pobox.com>
> Homepage and PGP Key: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/>
>
>
Fred Lenk, SysAdmin, CommPower
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