Re: Spammer jammer

[Patrick L Archibald <Patrick.Archibald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are using the 400 as our email server too but all of our email goes
to Postini <http://postini.com/> first.  Most likely Postini would
quarantine that malformed email message.

Thanx, PLA

JK wrote:

> All,
>
> While filling in for an on-vacation operator this week I discovered that
> our V5R2 box suffers from the same situation several times a week. According
> to the operator’s notes, IBM is aware of the problem but claims that there
> is nothing that they can do about it. His procedure describes how to use
> WRKLNK to search for and delete the bogus file(s).
>
> I'm aware that we could use the OpsNav spam filter (if we knew the
> addresses in advance) or we could restart MSF with the *CLEAR option (after
> the problem occurs), but I'm looking for a preventive solution.
>
> Maybe I don’t have the big picture here - can someone educate me about why
> a malformed text message can take out the iSeries MSF server and what can be
> done to prevent it? Has anyone worked with MSF exit points? The “AnyMail MSF
> Guide” (SC41-5411-00) refers to an “MSF Developers Guide (GG24-4449), but
> the links to that redbook seem to have been removed from the IBM website.
>
> Installing a separate box to handle incoming email is not an option for us.
> What are the rest of you doing?
>
> Thank you, JK
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 27. april 2004 14:25
> Subject: Spammer jammer
>
>
>
>
> > There is some %&#@* spammer who sends me a spam every morning about 7am.
> > This spammer is so dumb and the email is so malformed that the iSeries
> (our
>
>
> > mail server) cannot digest it and gives up.  Therefore no cleanup takes
> > place and the same messages get delivered to me again and again and again
> > and again and again until I go blow away this particular file in
> > QTCPTMM/MAIL/JEFF.
> >
> > Is there some way/setting/method that I can do to the iSeries email server
> > to simply blow away malformed emails?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Crosby
> > Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> > P.O. Box 13369
> > Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> > 260-422-7531
> >
> > The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
> > company.  Unless I say so.
>
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