On 11-Jun-01 Nash Hoogwater wrote:
On Monday 11 June 2001 11:25, you wrote:
On 09-Jun-01 Nash Hoogwater wrote:
Hi list,
I got some very strange mail a few minutes ago and a week ago also. Maybe someone can help me with this.
The mail doesn't contain a reply-adres, subject and almost no headers. The date is 1 january 1970 00:59:59. I have pasted the headers and text below. The text is also very strange as you can see.
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Content-Type: Status: R X-Status: N
1 3b13ce2000000001 2 3b13ce2000000002
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Really a strange one... Please state your kernel version, MTA (e. g. sendmail, with version number) and SuSE-release of your box and wether you use it in a production/business environment (with a 'real' IP) or at home with dyn.IP and modem/isdn/dsl/cable/whatever.
OK, here is comes: I use SuSE 7.1 with 2.4.0-4GB kernel (original suse-kernel), MTA = postfix-20001212-4. I have a static ip-address (adsl). I use fetchmail(fetchmail-5.6.0-5) to pop3 one account, but this isn't the account that received this mail. The account that received the mail is one that I pop3 from KMail (KDE 2.1.1) from my workstation. Furthermore I use gotmail to get my mail from hotmail, it runs every 5 minutes and sends mail to my mailbox. (on the server/gateway). To get al the mail I pop3 the server/gateway from my workstation with KMail. [...]
Just to clarify the whole thing: You have one or more account(s) which you poll via fetchmail and some you poll directly via KMail on your workstation. I've heard from certain stability problems with KMail and some more bugs. Perhaps KMail is responsible for this. This also would solve the riddle why your mailer accepts these "beheaded" mails, as KMail directly creates them in the spool without really sending them. What bugs me is the date of the mail. 01/01/1970 is the beginning of Unix time, and I have seen lots of programs with y2k problems using this time signature... ...which seems hardly possible. Have you updated KMail recently? [...]
Greetings,
Nash
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Boris Lorenz