Re: blank spam

download.com does have a mailenium program available for download





N. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:23:36 -0800, die spammer wrote:
> 
> 
>>is it me or is anyone else getting blank spam created by mailenium? is 
>>it the same person sending the watch ad spam.
>>
>>It seems that Mailenium is an email encryption add-on.
> 
> 
> Maillenium is not an encryption add-on; it is just the Comcast mail server
> software. Neither does not "create" email, it just processes it; same as
> any other MTA. Here is the banner I get when I open a Telnet session to
> smtp.comcast.net on port 25:
> 
> |220 comcast.net - Maillennium ESMTP/MULTIBOX sccrmhc12 #43
> 
> When you see the Comcast header lines about non-compliance with RFC 821,
> and adding a date, that is just the MTA telling you how it handled a
> particular problem it found with an incoming email.
> 
> As for the blank message; that is a common problem with a particular
> version of spamware. It affects the sent message, not the received message;
> different MTAs will handle the oddity according to their local processing
> rules. Yahoo! Mail MTAs handle it well, adding the SpamGuard Bulk
> notification in the headers. Here is my latest example:
> 
> http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z822480694z8148e83a82668f76712a5bb10dd6e8c6z
> 
> Note the SpamGuard header line, "X-YahooFilteredBulk: 61.125.107.28", which
> would cause this to be placed in the Yahoo! Bulk folder. I have this
> particular SBC sub account set to forward email to my local MTA, though.
> 
> Also note the truncation of the MID$; that is the sign that this particular
> version of this spamware is broken. All header lines after the broken MID$
> were added by the aosake.net MTA. I have seen one good example of this as
> received at a Comcast email account; same sign of brokenness. A lot of
> Comcast users are complaining because the Comcast spam filters, apparently,
> can't handle these as well as Yahoo! Mail's SpamGuard does.
>