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From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:00

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Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote:

[in demon.service]

> In article <871505507.18667.0.nnrp-07.9e989747@news.demon.co.uk>, Mike
> Mann <mike@kempston.demon.co.uk> writes
> 
> >To do so, one would have to use POP3 to issue a TOP n 0 command to
> >retrieve the headers only of each mail message, parse the resulting
> >data, identify the messages sent from an unwanted IP address, issue a
> >*ENV n command to retrieve the envelope MAIL FROM value, pass this
> >into an SMTP server, wait for the message to be offered and then
> >reject.
> 
> If you hold the headers in your hands you can generate a perfectly valid
> DSN message without the expense of messing around with *ENV or SMTP.

However that message would obviously have come from the target machine,
and will appear no different than a manually generated message. Probably
a distinction not worth worrying about?

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