On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Robert Menschel <Robert@Menschel.net> wrote:
> header XMAILERBOGUS X-Mailer =~ /^[a-z][^A-Z0-9]*$/
> describe XMAILERBOGUS X-Mailer header has NO uppercase letters, NO numbers... How do you expect me to believe that
>
> XMAILERBOGUS -- 396s/5h of 85945 corpus (70035s/15910h)
>
> X-Mailer: ubersmith (http://www.ubersmith.com/)
> was used by drak.net when I last queried them about web hosting.
Just a footnote on this rule; I'm seeing more MUAs using a URL as the
X-Mailer value, such as:
X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/
so I've added an exception for that form; could also add "." to the list
of things X-Mailer has to have none of.
--
Brent J. Nordquist <b-nordquist@bethel.edu> N0BJN
Other contact information: http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/contact.html
* Fast pipe * Always on * Get out of the way - Tim Bray http://tinyurl.com/7sti
> header XMAILERBOGUS X-Mailer =~ /^[a-z][^A-Z0-9]*$/
> describe XMAILERBOGUS X-Mailer header has NO uppercase letters, NO numbers... How do you expect me to believe that
>
> XMAILERBOGUS -- 396s/5h of 85945 corpus (70035s/15910h)
>
> X-Mailer: ubersmith (http://www.ubersmith.com/)
> was used by drak.net when I last queried them about web hosting.
Just a footnote on this rule; I'm seeing more MUAs using a URL as the
X-Mailer value, such as:
X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/
so I've added an exception for that form; could also add "." to the list
of things X-Mailer has to have none of.
--
Brent J. Nordquist <b-nordquist@bethel.edu> N0BJN
Other contact information: http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/contact.html
* Fast pipe * Always on * Get out of the way - Tim Bray http://tinyurl.com/7sti