Spam filter?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Tue Feb 3 14:50:17 UTC 2004


On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:33:45 +0000 Paul Furness <paul.furness at vil.ite.mee.com> wrote:

> I thought of that, but the headers are a bit confusing. The FROM header
> is saying "postmaster at redhat.com", but the originating mail server isn't
> obviously one of theirs: 

> Received:  from ns0.webmasters.com (ns.serverleasing.com
> [66.118.156.161])

> My guess is that Redhat (or whoever they buy their server space from)
> was twiddling with their spam filter this morning and it went a bit
> wrong for a while.

on reflection, i think you're correct. someone installed a change without
adequate lab testing beforehand. on the one hand, it's kind of sad, on
the other hand, sometimes when people do that they pay me a lot of
money to clean up the mess afterwards, which isn't so sad.

richard
-- 
Richard Welty                                         rwelty at averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
    Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security





More information about the users mailing list