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8 Responses to “Email Disconnections” 

1. 1 Edward  Apr 6th, 2004 at 1:27 pm

   X-Message-Info: O[4

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

2. 2 Andrew  Apr 6th, 2004 at 1:40 pm

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

3. 3 Edward  Apr 6th, 2004 at 2:34 pm

   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)

4. 4 Edward  Apr 6th, 2004 at 2:37 pm

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

5. 5 Edward  Apr 6th, 2004 at 2:49 pm

   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

6. 6 Edward  Apr 6th, 2004 at 4:31 pm

   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.

7. 7 Andrew  Apr 6th, 2004 at 5:56 pm

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

8. 8 Bert  May 6th, 2004 at 2:53 pm

   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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