Re: Misconfigured mailgate.????

From: Joerg Reuter (jpfwgpmk.arqtq@ancheim.ie)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 13:56:22 EEST

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    On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:03:01PM +0000, pa3gcu wrote:
     
    > I presume i am not the only one who is receiving misconfigured mail from some
    > gate somewhere.

    This is the mail as seen in the BBS system:

            OK1ZIA > LINUX 06.09.01 09:15z 93 Lines 3093 Bytes #999 (0) @WW
            BID : 69BOK1NAG00U
            Read: DK0TUX
            Yam driver bugfix (2.4.x)
            Path: DB0BOX<DB0LAN<DB0MRW<DB0HOT<OK0PKL<OK0NF<OK0PRG<OK0POK<OK0NAG<
            Sent: 010906/0609z @:OK0NAG.#BOH.CZE.EU [TCP/IP BBS Plzen] bcm1.43l
            X-Info: Received from 195.47.60.30 by SMTP-gateway
            X-Info: Received from stdin by prsend.pl.3179
            X-From: Ladislav Vaiz <ujcqe@bbt.net.ar>
            X-To: wnsk@follo.net
            Subject: Yam driver bugfix (2.4.x)
            Sender: egwbh@scc.net
            To: elinhams@ok0nag
            From: ok1zia <ok1zia>
            X-sender: hyxvk.xlwx@cat.com
              by localhost with smtp; 6 sep 2001 06: 06:47 -0000
            Received: from localhost (oip.pncei@soft.net)
            Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
              by 195.47.60.30 with smtp; 6 sep 2001 06: 08:54 -0000
            Mime-version: 1.0
            Reply-to: lan.fsxy@mail.dy.fi
            Precedence: bulk
            Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:06:46 +0200 (CEST)
            X-mailing-list: xjgak.upry@startv.com
            Message-id: <popt.rlpf@comcen.com.au>

    If I'm not completely mistaken, it was send from Ladislav to linux-hams
    (apparently using OK0NAG as a gateway from packet radio to Internet
    e-mail) and, when it got resent by vger.kernel.org, gated to LINUX @ WW by
    OK0NAG. That gateway apparently sets X-From and X-To headers. The
    mail reached DB0PRA.DB0ACH.#NRW.DEU.EU which runs an S&F and SMTP
    gateway as well and uses X-To / X-From to determine the headers
    for mails into the BBS. DB0PRA only relays mails with certain
    characteristics -- especially only personal mails (sent with "SP")
    are relayed, never bulletins, it additionally keeps track of bulletin
    and message IDs and should only relay with target "DB0PRA" or no
    target at all (I guess the "@WW" got added locally at DB0BOX).

    In short: SP <board> is evil, gateways are evil and the S&F BBS concept
    we use is broken beyond repair.

    73, 

    -- 
Joerg Reuter                                    http://yaina.de/jreuter
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Everything is waiting quietly out there....                 (Anne Clark)
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