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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2005/01/28 18:49:01 UTC

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR matches wrongly on hotmail

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Matt Kettler writes:
> At 09:23 AM 1/28/2005, Tony Finch wrote:
> > > Hi, it seems that HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR fires wrongly on this header:
> > >
> > > Received: from bay22-dav1.bay22.hotmail.com[64.4.16.181]:30781 (EHLO
> > >   hotmail.com) by mailgateway.sitc.dk ([195.231.241.98]:25) (F-Secure
> > >   Anti-Virus for Internet Mail 6.41.149 Release) with SMTP; Wed, 19 Jan 2005
> > >   19:41:14 -0000
> >
> >F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Mail is producing incorrectly-formatted
> >Received: lines.
> 
> Erm, Where is that header invalid? As far as I can see it's following all 
> of the rules of RFC 2822.

It's not what SpamAssassin expects a line to look like ;)

generally the receiving site doesn't give its IP address; a lot of faked
headers added by spamware do, though.  hence the rule.  Ole, could you
open a bug in the SpamAssassin bugzilla about this?

- --j.
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Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR matches wrongly on hotmail

Posted by Tony Finch <do...@dotat.at>.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote:
>
> So I don't feel able to bugzilla this one - any takers?

It isn't a bug in SpamAssassin.

Tony.
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Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR matches wrongly on hotmail

Posted by Ole Nomann Thomsen <on...@uni-c.dk>.
Justin Mason wrote:

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> Matt Kettler writes:
>> At 09:23 AM 1/28/2005, Tony Finch wrote:
>> > > Hi, it seems that HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR fires wrongly on this header:
>> > >
>> > > Received: from bay22-dav1.bay22.hotmail.com[64.4.16.181]:30781 (EHLO
>> > >   hotmail.com) by mailgateway.sitc.dk ([195.231.241.98]:25) (F-Secure
>> > >   Anti-Virus for Internet Mail 6.41.149 Release) with SMTP; Wed, 19
>> > >   Jan 2005 19:41:14 -0000
>> >
>> >F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Mail is producing incorrectly-formatted
>> >Received: lines.
>> 
>> Erm, Where is that header invalid? As far as I can see it's following all
>> of the rules of RFC 2822.
> 
> It's not what SpamAssassin expects a line to look like ;)
> 
> generally the receiving site doesn't give its IP address; a lot of faked
> headers added by spamware do, though.  hence the rule.  Ole, could you
> open a bug in the SpamAssassin bugzilla about this?

I think I ought to wait, until the discussion concludes with something (call
me a chicken:-). Unfortunately I'll be away for 2 months, starting
tomorrow. So I don't feel able to bugzilla this one - any takers?

- Ole.