Comments on: Email Disconnections

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

X-Message-Info: O[4

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is Spam Assassin running on their mail servers????
And if so, is it breaking????

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Is X-Message-Info a SpamAssassin header? I’m trying to find out about it, but not having much luck atm

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well I thought that it was since I’m running NAV, and on my SpamAssassin (I am pretty sure it is SapmAssassin) protected emails, I get loads of extra headers

From - Sun Apr 04 14:38:35 2004
X-UIDL: UID1990-1070046922
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-path:
Delivery-date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 06:38:14 -0700
Received: from [216.148.213.132] (helo=smtp.mailix.net)
by mx.mailix.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24-GA)
id 1BA7pE-0003l2-QN
for email@email.email; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 06:38:12 -0700
Received: from [212.56.110.225] (helo=edbateman.com)
by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.24-H)
id 1BA7p6-00064A-E3
for email; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 06:38:04 -0700
Message-ID:
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 14:37:40 +0100
From: emailemail
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: email@email.email
X-uvscan-result: clean (1BA7p6-00064A-E3)
X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: email@email.email
Subject: (no subject)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on
westvirginia.backend
X-Spam-Report:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.61
X-Spam-Level:
X-SA-Exim-Version: 3.1 (built Thu Oct 23 13:26:47 PDT 2003)
X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes
X-uvscan-result: clean (1BA7pE-0003l2-QN)

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

(my emails are also virus scanned too at the mail server!)

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, I want to change my mind. (sorry)
SpamAssassin adds extra fields in, but it doesn’t mention that it adds the X-Message-Info. I think that some servers, when sending emails on copy the Message-Info old message info to a new X-Message-Info, and then replace the Message-Info.
I will do a search through all my emails and see if any have these headers

By: Edward

Edward — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

After mucho searching on the web and emails, I’ve concluded that I’m at a loss.
The only emails that have those headers are from hotmail emails, and the email headers continue on after the X-Message-Info headers.
Perhaps you might want to:
a) check whether the mail.zp.ua is a blacklisted web server
b) check what Tiscali thinks about the problem?

It might be a: ‘It is a feature, not a bug’.
Sorry to have been no more help.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

No problem, thanks very much for looking! I’ll do some investigating of the IP etc as you suggest

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not sure if there are legitimate uses of X-Message-Info, but the ones you quote are consistent with certain spam software.

The clipped message is in all likelyhood also caused by the spamware. My hypothesis is that they use an unreliable protocol to talk to the (virus/worm) infected machine, and therefore only manage to send parts of the spam out when the network connection of the victim in between gets overloaded.

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